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at variance with

adverb as in counter

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By preventing the Chagossian people from returning to Diego Garcia, "the agreement appears to be at variance with the Chagossians' right to return," the UN experts wrote.

From BBC

The document ultimately did not directly address that, though it called on Catholics to examine whether they align with church teachings and said bishops have a “special responsibility” to respond to “public actions at variance with the visible Communion of the church and the moral law.”

The forecast bodes well for the U.S. retail industry and is at variance with a Deloitte forecast on Wednesday, which showed back-to-school spending was set to decline for the first time in nine years due to shoppers’ resilience to higher prices waning under sticky inflation.

From Reuters

But the idea that including Republicans in its programming was novel to the network was at variance with recent history.

Though McConnell has enabled Trump at crucial moments, he said at a news conference this week that it was “a mistake” for Fox News to portray the insurrection “in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here in the Capitol thinks.”

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

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