contrarian

Example Sentences

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What is your most contrarian view about the AI cycle?

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

“He has a history of making smart, contrarian bets.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

This alone is not enough to deliver a contrarian bearish signal, according to the Goldman team, but it found that an RAI at such levels does increase the frequency of stock-market corrections.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

Dave Ruhland of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky told Slate that he thought Massie “was being a contrarian just to be a contrarian.”

From Slate • May 20, 2026

But he was a natural contrarian, a born critic, whose fullest energies manifested themselves in the act of doing intellectual isometric exercises against the fixed objects presented by someone else's ideas.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis