antonym
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To allay confusion, “Squid Game: The Challenge” is a living antonym of authenticity in that it is one of the most thoroughly engineered reality competition shows on TV.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2023
Also, Lynell George’s “City of Specters,” which began with Truman Capote’s report that most L.A. students, asked to specify the antonym of “youth,” answered “death.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
I’m not sure there’s a precise antonym for “nice.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2020
Bournemouth have almost been the antonym of Huddersfield this season.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2018
One who stands at both ends of a perspective; simultaneity of sight; to be one's self plus; to be synonym and antonym to everything.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Elbert Hubbard
The antonyms of diversity, equity and inclusion are uniformity, inequality and exclusion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
"Vocabularies, dictionaries of synonyms and antonyms, encyclopaedias are educational tools of reference and Treccani.it, as such, is consulted in schools, libraries and in all of our homes."
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2021
And still the signs fluttered and scattered, the book of antonyms ripped up by Sanders delegates, who tore at its pages and yanked at its binding, its brittle glue.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
In fact, if we repeat the exercise with antonyms for shapes, sound intensities or even brightness in other foreign languages, we will still agree more than half the time.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2015
Subjective and objective are synonyms in but one point of view, being, for the most part, strictly antonyms.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
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