Contrary
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Contrary to all rational expectations, a group of citizens armed with not much more than sticks and shields made of cardboard boxes and metal garbage-can lids overwhelmed a police force firing live ammunition.
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Well, actually rats are, in
contrary
to what most people think about them, rats are highly sociable creatures.
So
contrary
to what we heard a few months back about how 75 percent of that oil sort of magically disappeared and we didn't have to worry about it, this disaster is still unfolding.
On the contrary, they'll demonstrate that atheists are often the kinds of people who could serve as decent role models for your children, the kinds of people an advertising agent could use to recommend a product, the kinds of people who are sitting in this room.
On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.
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