opposite
Example Sentences
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To start the week Oracle broke above a bearish descending triangle, and we know from false moves come fast ones in the opposite direction.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
More than 40 years later, at 82, he has the opposite problem.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Oil producers and energy-hungry industrials have moved in opposite directions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Platner’s tattoo, then, is a particularly charged showdown between vectors of progressivism headed in opposite directions—the old world and the new.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
She’s trying to make me question things I know are right, the same way Jonah did every time we were on opposite sides for a debate in history class.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing opposite
Opposites Attract
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The Number System
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Common Core Grades 9–10, List 1
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