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The tax exclusion for employer health coverage does the opposite.

Instead of shutting their doors and pouring some pre-Christian version of holy water around their houses to keep the spirits away, people would often do the exact opposite.

From Salon

"Her eyes were going in opposite corners and her head suddenly got massive," Corinne recalled, speaking more than two years on from the initial surgery.

From BBC

The Dodgers’ preferred identity for this year’s team figures to be the opposite of what worked last October.

The PGA Tour takes two drives from every player's round from holes faced in opposite directions to counteract the effect of wind.

From BBC

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

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