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View definitions for put in opposition

put in opposition

verb as in pit

Weak match

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And often these things are put in opposition to each other.

What Crenshaw saw was that, with feminists supporting Hill and anti-racist activists defending Thomas, twin calls for equality were being put in opposition to each other.

Dr. Casadevall said that he still believed randomized trials were the “only way we’re going to know whether it works or not,” but that they should not be put in opposition to Mayo’s program.

In the first sentence, that oddly negative connotation is evident from the words “base” and “carnal” and also in the way that sensuality is put in opposition to intellect.

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We must stand by our Choice, we must stay together with those involved in that Choice and continue the Rejection or Discard of those who are thus put in opposition.

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

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