opposites
Example Sentences
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The stock market’s identical twins are looking like opposites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
They are the diametrical opposites of Angela and Joe: calm and free, while their downstairs neighbors are neurotic and toxically codependent.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
The more we talked, the more we realized that our shortcomings, which made us look like exact opposites, came from the same root.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
The pair are seen by many as polar opposites.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
The laws of medicine fit within this wider structure of laws, and the fundamental law of medicine is the ancient Hippocratic principle that opposites cure opposites—a fever is cured by cooling the body, for example.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
