contrary
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He said: "The defender conceded that the defender discriminated against the pursuer, contrary to the provisions of the Equalities Act."
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
After a brief interrogation, and contrary to Dan’s previous claims, Bill admitted involvement with the superstore.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Private credit is showing increasing signs of stress, despite comments to the contrary from some of the largest fund managers that are trying to put a year of turmoil behind them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
On the contrary, it helps ensure that you can continue to be present.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
To the contrary, tens of thousands of law enforcement officers have received training that guarantees precisely the opposite.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
We grow up to discover there are names in every culture for that — yin and yang, the Apollonian and Dionysian, Vishnu and Shiva, thesis and antithesis, the law of contraries, the dialectic.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Art is made of contraries, of ambivalence and ambiguity; it never wants us to feel a single thing.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2020
She revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries in which “we hold still for the camera, believing/ it will shore up time, knowing it won’t.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2016
“The knowledge of contraries is one and the same,” as Aristotle said.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2014
"Nothin' but a dream, and they allers go by contraries," answered Ike.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley
Vocabulary lists containing contrary
Opposites Attract
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Against All Odds: Contra and Counter
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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