And it's interesting because there really is a big disjunction between what some states do and some don't.

NPR: Slate's Jurisprudence: Moussaoui's Insanity Defense

What to make of this curious disjunction between France's politics and its economics?

ECONOMIST: Something odd in France

This reflects a strange disjunction between the optimism of the top-tier boomers--venture capitalists, academics and the self-described progressives--and the realities facing most Californians.

FORBES: New Geographer

But there's a disjunction between what goes on in parliament day to day and what the coalition wants to tell the electorate they're doing to get the economy moving.

BBC: Side-by-side, but looking apart?

But investors' cold feet also might have something to do with what behavioral economists call the "disjunction effect, " the idea that people don't think one step ahead when making decisions because they're waiting for more information.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Thus, when Ted takes her out on a boat, she jumps over the side for a swim, and we cut not in a jagged disjunction but with a smooth and watery ease to Martha and a bunch of others leaping into a secluded pool, their bare white limbs writhing like fish in the black water.

NEWYORKER: Family Farm