antonym
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To allay confusion, “Squid Game: The Challenge” is a living antonym of authenticity in that it is one of the most thoroughly engineered reality competition shows on TV.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2023
I’m not sure there’s a precise antonym for “nice.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2020
Over the past 50 years, the natural environment has been treated as an antonym of the human economy.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2019
A 2015 Kellblog entry from tech executive Dave Kellogg also puts the word in business terms, defining it along with its antonym, a “simplifier.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2019
“I was in search of an antonym and now they’ve driven it out of my memory.”
From Our Next-Door Neighbors by Belle Kanaris Maniates
The antonyms of diversity, equity and inclusion are uniformity, inequality and exclusion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
"Vocabularies, dictionaries of synonyms and antonyms, encyclopaedias are educational tools of reference and Treccani.it, as such, is consulted in schools, libraries and in all of our homes."
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2021
It was a book of antonyms: the future, not the past; love, not hate.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
The words are equivalent to the English antonyms big, small.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2015
Discrimination in the use of words is secured by The study of synonyms antonyms homonyms and care in employing them.
From Public Speaking by Clarence Stratton
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