adversative
Example Sentences
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Ginsburg explicitly said it “may be assumed” that most women did not want to go through the adversative model of VMI.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Companies that in the past had an adversative relationship with conservation groups have begun to take actions that are more than public relations.
From Time Magazine Archive
They accordingly emphasize the adversative idea, and are properly Subordinate Adversative Clauses.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
But the conjunction is often omitted in copulative and adversative clauses, as in Sec.
From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell
They are sometimes adversative; sometimes they are simply cumulative.
From Study of the King James Bible by Cleland Boyd McAfee
