antithesis

They were pushing the antithesis of the intimate learning style my literary program had once promoted.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

“This here is the antithesis of the raids last year,” said Sandra De Anda, who wore a Stetson and a Tigres Mexican soccer club jersey and waved a South Korea flag.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

For every idea, Höttges insisted on considering the antithesis as well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

"It's the antithesis of a hospital ward," says garden designer Sarah Price.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

In fact, his cases for both the thesis and the antithesis are really the same argument.

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

To illuminate his dark subject matter, Fiedler adopts a punchy, aggressive prose replete with antitheses, exclamation marks, capitalized terminology and bold generalizations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Meaning and purpose are the antitheses to the nothingness of the everything bagel.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

In the New York that shaped Trump’s aesthetics, that description would have suited affordable housing projects like Waterside Plaza, River Park Towers, Chatham Towers, and Tracey Towers—the antitheses of Trump’s new brand.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2018

Lancaster had been seen as the antitheses of predecessor Martin Johnson: one a big name but never before a coach, the other an outsider who had coached his way up from the grassroots.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2015

Sentence is bound to sentence with repeated words—“conceive,” “dedicate,” “consecrate”— and with the antitheses of “we” and “they,” “living” and “dead.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith