contrary
Example Sentences
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Edison denies the claims, calling their description of the fire’s start an “exotic ignition theory…contrary to accepted scientific principles.”
From Los Angeles Times
Her adulation of Herod, the assimilated Roman Jewish client-king of Judea, was contrary to most takes on him, certainly to the baby-Jesus-hunter of Matthew’s Gospel.
Brooks attempted to distance himself from the exchange, calling out TMZ in a TikTok posted Monday: “I don’t know what happened. I wasn’t there,” he said, despite video evidence pointing to the contrary.
From Los Angeles Times
Anything to the contrary could crush the Nasdaq and potentially bring it below the low it reached this fall, about a 6% drop from its current level.
From Barron's
Anything to the contrary could crush the Nasdaq and potentially bring it below the low it reached this fall, about a 6% drop from its current level.
From Barron's
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