opposing

Example Sentences

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Sports teams around the world have experimented with billing requirements or ticketing tied to team membership programs in an effort to keep opposing fans from flooding home games.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

Modica said some NIMBYs opposing development talk like they are “revolutionary soldiers fighting the good fight against the tyranny of townhouses.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Prediction markets differ from traditional gambling firms by connecting two opposing bettors, rather than having bettors wager against the proverbial house.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

All the while it is caught in the crossfire of opposing armies.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

There was a nail-hard strength in her, a lack of any compromise, a rightness in the face of all opposing wrongness, which made you hold her in a kind of awe but not in warmth.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck