Used in a Sentence

starker

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for starker.

Editorial note

Transitions are starker than they used to be, strange blinks as you see in this video, and more.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of starker gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for starker.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

1

Transitions are starker than they used to be, strange blinks as you see in this video, and more.

2

A starker example: People who weigh 80 pounds and people who weigh 240 pounds are both considered unattractive.

3

The consequences of letting large segments of the population lose their life savings is a bit starker.

4

The subsequent transformation is much more jarring, because the change in their power is much starker.

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Perhaps, but the further back you go, the starker the shift in reading habits becomes.

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They're likely to be considerably starker with this range than anything they've ever made before.

7

Maybe SV's standards are stricter than the GRE cutoff and the difference at the end of the bell curve is even starker?

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In this particular case with the NSA, it's even starker: who generated the information?

9

If you insist on boiling this down to only being about race (a stance I would disagree with), the comparison is much starker when cast as hispanic/asian[1] or black/asian[2].

10

I guess the lenses through which you view the world make an even starker difference than I'd already thought.

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But the predominance of the ground makes it feels starker and lonelier.

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For an even starker example, look at the Google Books case.

Quote examples

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Doctors want to be purveyors of hope rather than despair, a motive sometimes attributed to compassion, sometimes to a starker concern that patients will find a new, more optimistic second opinion." This is something that hits home very deeply.

2

The relevant paragraph from the original WSJ article: "Some suggested that in Apple’s next mobile operating system, Ive is pushing a more “flat design” that is starker and simpler, according to developers who have spoken to Apple employees but didn’t have further details.

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>Adjunct professors now make up half of all college faculties, and 76 percent of instructional positions are filled on a contingent basis, according to the American Association of University Professors’ annual report on the “economic status of the profession.” There’s no starker way to consider adjuncts’ economic status than to hear that they’re paid an average of $2,000-$3,000 per class, with few to no benefits.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use starker in a sentence?

Transitions are starker than they used to be, strange blinks as you see in this video, and more.

What does starker mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is starker?

starker is commonly used as noun.