opponent
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Opponent Julia Riera walked over to check on Jones and helped lift her on to a wheelchair.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025
Opponent Jim Kinyon, chairperson of Protecting South Dakota Kids, said the state’s voters already had a say on the issue and rejected recreational marijuana back in 2022.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024
Opponent rushes up the court with urgency and promptly makes a three-point shot.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2024
The average score of those games: Ranked Big Ten Opponent 44, Maryland 12.
From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2021
Surely, if our Opponent be not dead to every generous emotion, he cannot look his own objection in the face, without a blush of shame and indignation.
From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by Wilberforce, William
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Excerpt from "The Philosophy of Literary Form" by Kenneth Burke
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