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
Cocke and I have felt it in our bones—Gammer Gurton's Needle With adversative or disjunctive connectives.
From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt
Hence it only remains to ascribe the judgment to him as the causa principalis.—If the three angels were equals, it would be impossible to explain the adversative clause in chap. xviii.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
The adversative particle refers to the two first lines.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur
