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antithesis

noun as in exact opposite

noun as in contrast, opposition

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Today it’s synonymous with corporate monotony and conformity, but it actually started life as the antithesis of what it came to represent.

The growth in drone use for military ends has spawned its antithesis – a counter-drone industry.

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That is the antithesis of how the industry has operated for close to the past half-century.

For J, the whole experience of being back in the band is "the antithesis of what it was before."

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Coming up where it’s like, ‘you have to kill’, ‘every show has to be great,’ I go, that’s actually the antithesis of creating anything.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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