oppositional
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“They’re typically finding a way to not be oppositional to the White House but also saying things like, ‘We’re going to continue to talk about this in the way we have talked about it.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
"Her experience of street-level oppositional politics from the Communist era could, however, see a return."
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
“It almost feels like the university has become somewhat of an oppositional force against its students.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
But the fraught, even fundamentally oppositional relationship between landlords and tenants seemed very much a feature of For Rent.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2024
It brought together the old revolutionary rhetoric, even deploying some familiar Jeffersonian language, with all the oppositional energy of the Whig tradition, then hurled it at assumption as the new incarnation of foreign domination.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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