The phrase "contrasting pair" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing two items, concepts, or ideas that are different or opposite in nature.
Example: "In the study, we examined the contrasting pair of urban and rural lifestyles to understand their impacts on mental health."
Alternatives: "opposing duo" or "differing set".
The stories made a nicely contrasting pair.
Like the Webern and Xenakis scores, pieces by two young composers (both born in 1971) proved an appealingly contrasting pair.
The first two golden-age films to appear on Blu-ray come out this month, and they make a nicely contrasting pair.
The question arises because this in-your-face (to use my Russian's term) production – which is playing to full houses in London – precedes a contrasting pair of Uncle Vanyas in the West End.
It was the idea of Murray Edwards, the well-rooted executive director of Wakefield's Theatre Royal and Opera House, a Frank Matcham gem which makes a good if contrasting pair with the Hepworth.
On Tuesday night, which opened the season's fifth week, a contrasting pair of pieces by Jerome Robbins returned to repertory: "The Cage" (1951), set to Stravinsky's String Concerto in D, and "Andantino" (1981), to Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto's second movement.
Sounds are meaningful only in contrasting pairs.
This song, written with Mac Davis, lays out a string of contrasting pairs — mansion versus double-wide trailer, champagne versus chocolate milk — while neatly claiming dominion over it all.
The passages describe four male characters, arranged into contrasting pairs of what the researchers call "dads and cads," corresponding to the "proper heroes" and "dark heroes" of Romantic literature.
However, Mantel tests contrasting pair-wise geographic distance and Sorensen dissimilarity demonstrate no relationship between proximity and similarity for forest (R = 0.030, p = 0.273) or open-space bats (R = 0.041, p = 0.183).
These were chosen as contrasting pairs of New World and Old World monkeys, each exhibiting more emphasis on hard or tough foods than is found in modern chimpanzees or gorillas.
