antithesis
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Cerebral and soft-spoken, Sher was the antithesis of politicians nowadays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
They were pushing the antithesis of the intimate learning style my literary program had once promoted.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
“AI is the antithesis of stop-motion. We’re not even remotely interested in it, because we do stop-motion to enjoy the artistic processes,” Roy said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
For every idea, Höttges insisted on considering the antithesis as well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
“These terrorists are the antithesis of Islam. They’re not Muslim. Violence has no place in religion, and the terrorists are responsible for their own crimes, not the religion and not us.”
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
To illuminate his dark subject matter, Fiedler adopts a punchy, aggressive prose replete with antitheses, exclamation marks, capitalized terminology and bold generalizations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Meaning and purpose are the antitheses to the nothingness of the everything bagel.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
In the New York that shaped Trump’s aesthetics, that description would have suited affordable housing projects like Waterside Plaza, River Park Towers, Chatham Towers, and Tracey Towers—the antitheses of Trump’s new brand.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2018
Lancaster had been seen as the antitheses of predecessor Martin Johnson: one a big name but never before a coach, the other an outsider who had coached his way up from the grassroots.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2015
Sentence is bound to sentence with repeated words—“conceive,” “dedicate,” “consecrate”— and with the antitheses of “we” and “they,” “living” and “dead.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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Power Prefix: Anti
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