antithesis

Example Sentences

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The Hollywood Heritage Museum, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in December, is, in many ways, the antithesis of the 4-year-old Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 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

Today it’s synonymous with corporate monotony and conformity, but it actually started life as the antithesis of what it came to represent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Figures of antithesis or parallelism may serve to frame or advance an argument; apoplanesis* to avoid one.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith