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antagonistic

[an-tag-uh-nis-tik] / ænˌtæg əˈnɪs tɪk /
ADJECTIVE
opposing
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The team calls this framework Adaptive Tracking with Antagonistic Pleiotropy.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

Antagonistic or demeaning remarks are deleted or hidden on their online channels.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2022

Antagonistic pathways and gene products that balance trait characteristics are frequently found in flowering plants.

From Nature • Jul. 14, 2020

Antagonistic audiences pummeled the early Marx Brothers with, as Harpo recalled, “sticks, bricks, spitballs, cigar butts, peach pits and chewed-out stalks of sugar cane.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2015

Antagonistic to this is the principle that doctrines are only so far to be considered true as they are logically demonstrated.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal




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