contrarian

Example Sentences

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“Anti-AI” stocks are a contrarian bet that the market’s tech-fueled rally will be short-lived.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

This “extreme pessimism” is the contrarian tailwind the market has been waiting for.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

I left the theater feeling giddily put through the wringer by its contrarian depictions of heroes and fiends.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Having made a contrarian call to go long oil in January,

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

But he was a natural contrarian, a born critic, whose fullest energies manifested themselves in the act of doing intellectual isometric exercises against the fixed objects presented by someone else's ideas.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis