spite
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Yet in spite of that media shift, 60 Minutes remained widely viewed and successful across all metrics.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
Budapest's annual pride march went ahead last year in spite of the ban, with organisers of the march saying at the time that a record 200,000 people took part.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
Yet even my former boyfriend from England, who I imagine having grown up with a silver spoon, would go on to acknowledge to me that Olive Garden was good in spite of his initial skepticism.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
“Boz, you have been effective in spite of your behavior,” he said Sandberg told him, “not because of it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
And yet in spite of sorrow and anxiety—and no one in that place was without both—there was laughter, too, in the Phillips barracks.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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