opposite
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Two novels involving data centers seem to occupy opposite sides of the techno-mystic and techno-materialist divide.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 10, 2026
"Almost every squad has had the opposite, the player who disrupts harmony, who puts himself first."
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2026
While your investments could earn strong returns during the years you’re delaying Social Security, the opposite could also happen.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 9, 2026
The work connects two seemingly opposite descriptions of a single impurity moving through or remaining nearly motionless within a large collection of fermions, a system known as a Fermi sea.
From Science Daily • Jul. 9, 2026
Shortly after, he watched the devoted Pack carry the girl in the red parka in the opposite direction from where he was heading.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Vocabulary lists containing opposite
Opposites Attract
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The Number System
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Common Core Grades 9–10, List 1
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