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The phrase "two opposing elements" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing concepts, ideas, or forces that are in conflict or contrast with each other. Example: "In the debate, the speaker highlighted the two opposing elements of freedom and security."
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All marriages, she says, "are mixed marriages", and one of her favourite narrative ploys is to put two opposing elements – usually a prissily fastidious man and a scatty, demonstrative woman – together and chart the reaction as minutely as a chemist.
His popularity was based on two opposing elements in his work.
Leopold Mozart once said of his son, "Two opposing elements rule his nature, I mean, there is either too much or too little, never the golden mean".
Rather than assuming that modernisation/globalisation and traditional family values are two opposing elements (the former erodes the latter, the latter slows down the process of the former), this research investigates how contemporary Chinese family contracts (mainly to do with filial piety) are being reconfigured and renegotiated in "the age of migration" (Castles and Miller 2009).
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The critic Robert Orledge writes, "His genius was one of synthesis: he reconciled such opposing elements as modality and tonality, anguish and serenity, seduction and force within a single non-eclectic style, as in the Pelléas et Mélisande suite, his symphonic masterpiece.
It is based on the claim that everything is composed of four material elements ("roots"); these elements are moved by two opposing forces.
He overlooked the visual element; the game with its two opposing teams of sculptural figures has considerable artistic potential.
People routinely struggle with two opposing emotions.
These operate by balancing two opposing forces.
There are two opposing sides with two opposing plans.
The model captures two opposing forces.
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