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In either case, you would get the opposite of the correct direction.

Tatum let Ennis set his screen and cut to the opposite side of the court, and Tatum barely moved.

The departing stars form two long tails — each hundreds of light-years long — streaming out of opposite sides of the cluster.

Do three reps total, then switch your stance so your opposite leg is forward.

At the opposite end of the spectrum are teams that had terrible 60-game stretches totally uncharacteristic of the rest of their season.

Any list of his conspicuous qualities turns out to be a recitation of opposites.

Shaked spoke in these generalities initially—referring to two sets of people, two polar opposites on a pendulum.

Really, though, the American Atheist convention in Salt Lake City is not a clash of opposites.

For one thing, it sounds like it has to do “dark matter,” but they are almost complete opposites.

In classic TV style, this pair of oddballs proves that opposites really do attract.

Ever since the world began, the inexplicable attraction which opposites have for each other has been admitted.

The extreme ends or the heads of the needles must be opposites, the head of one negative and the head of the other positive.

They rose at flies which were the exact opposites of each other in size, character, and colour.

Benefits and wrongs are opposites; a slave can bestow a benefit upon his master, if he can receive a wrong from his master.

But by some mysterious law of opposites, as she went down the pail went up.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to opposites, such as: antithesis, contrary, inverse, paradox, reverse, and obverse.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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