antithesis

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Some noncoastal ad firms as a result are more aggressively pitching themselves as the friendly antithesis to faceless, famous agencies, now embracing rather than apologizing for their lack of metropolitan elitism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

“That is the antithesis of how we invest. We are underweight AI and data-center stocks.”

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

Small-town independent theaters are the antithesis of the movie-theater corporatization that has exacerbated our national loneliness.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

The antithesis of laser-focused, but loved all the more for it, Hunt lived his whole life flat-out, dying after a heart attack at 45 in 1993, at the time working as a BBC F1 pundit.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

The argument for the antithesis was that if the universe had a beginning, there would be an infinite period of time before it, so why should the universe begin at any one particular time?

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking