contra
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In fact, the author argues that, contra the “biological essentialist” view that says women are made for child care and men for professional work, the sexes are actually more similar than they are different.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
She also judged a biscuit competition and participated in contra dances, which is what got her into this music in the first place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
Those results do not tell us that our world is quantum; rather they prove that, contra Einstein, it cannot be ruled by classical physics.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 2023
"Despite all these contra indicators, the market keeps selling off," Murphy said.
From Reuters ● Jan. 24, 2022
I would not have written this book if I did not believe, contra Wilde, that many principles of style really can be taught.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
That stirred complaints from two AP Washington reporters who later said they felt Lewis held them back on their early reporting on North’s shadowy contacts with Nicaraguan contras.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2021
In Nicaragua in the early 1980s, he narrowly escaped death while embedded with a group of U.S.-backed guerrillas called the contras.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2020
The contras died down for most of the past two decades, but are rumoured to be making a comeback amid growing frustration with Ortega’s increasingly authoritarian rule.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2016
Prince Bandar pledged $1 million per month to help fund the contras, in recognition of the administration’s past support to the Saudis.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2016
Somoza was long gone, the contras were nothing but a memory.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
