adversative
Example Sentences
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Ginsburg explicitly said it “may be assumed” that most women did not want to go through the adversative model of VMI.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Companies that in the past had an adversative relationship with conservation groups have begun to take actions that are more than public relations.
From Time Magazine Archive
In view of the doubtful status of adversative atque at the time of Ovid and the ease of corruption of atqui to atque I have followed Heinsius in reading atqui.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
Other words of an adversative nature are yet, however, nevertheless, only, notwithstanding, and still.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
But is termed the adversative coördinate conjunction because it usually introduces something adverse to what has already been said.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
