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opponents

NOUN

person with whom one competes

Synonyms

STRONGEST

adversary aspirant candidate challenger competitor enemy foe opposition player rival

STRONG

antagonist anti assailant bandit bidder con contestant disputant entrant litigant match opposer

WEAK

counteragent dark horse dissentient oppugnant

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ally assistant friend helper

WEAK

associate colleague

Example Sentences

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But the idea came under immediate pressure from political opponents and civil liberties campaigners, including Big Brother Watch, highlighting concerns around privacy.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Deep-pocketed opponents are trying to repeal it outright.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

But Zillow, the most-visited U.S. real-estate website, is one of the biggest opponents of this practice.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

“Steyer is outspending his opponents by far more than any other self-funded candidate in California,” said Dan Schnur, a longtime politics professor at USC, UC Berkeley and Pepperdine University.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

It is a standard ploy of opponents of relativism to argue that we all share certain commonsensical capacities for reasoning, and thus we can all recognize better knowledge when we see it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton