adversative
Example Sentences
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Ginsburg explicitly said it “may be assumed” that most women did not want to go through the adversative model of VMI.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Companies that in the past had an adversative relationship with conservation groups have begun to take actions that are more than public relations.
From Time Magazine Archive
They accordingly emphasize the adversative idea, and are properly Subordinate Adversative Clauses.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
We are made to sympathize with his terrible anguish, as the logic of his remorse-throbbing conscience leads him to the bitter adversative: "But 'tis too late—all hope is past."
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
In view of the doubtful status of adversative atque at the time of Ovid and the ease of corruption of atqui to atque I have followed Heinsius in reading atqui.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
