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buck
verb as in resist, oppose
Example Sentences
One issue on which Trump may hesitate to buck public opinion: Abortion.
Teams who had failed to score a touchdown and committed three or more turnovers had gone 0-147 before Minnesota bucked that trend.
The team already has two Japanese stars in Ohtani and Yamamoto, who bucked the notion that Japanese big leaguers prefer not to play on the same team.
He pitched himself to voters as a moderate Republican, saying he bucked his party on abortion and immigration, instead sticking to middle-of-the-road policy proposals.
Tran, born in the U.S. to Vietnamese refugees, is hoping to buck that trend.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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