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2122 examples of Contrary in a sentence

On the contrary, it takes about 250 people four to five years, to make one of those movies.
And contrary to what you may think, affairs are way less about sex, and a lot more about desire: desire for attention, desire to feel special, desire to feel important.
And when I learned this, it seemed so weird to me, so contrary to everything I'd been told, everything I thought I knew, I just thought it couldn't be right, until I met a man called Bruce Alexander.
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism."]
On the contrary, we're fulfilling the murderer's desire to be seen.
On the contrary, every time they appear, every time they risk becoming visible, merely gives grounds for further persecution, expulsion and suppression.
For example, early focus groups found that contrary to popular opinion at the time, wives often had more influence than their husbands when choosing which car to buy, so Chrysler shifted gears by marketing cars directly to women.
And contrary to popular belief, Richard Nixon was never actually impeached for the Watergate scandal.
History has conditioned us to believe that somehow, the criminal justice system brings about accountability and improves public safety, despite evidence to the contrary.
And believe you me, there has been a lot of contrary evidence.
On the contrary, we are the only ones who can.
Putting all the data together, what we found is that, contrary to popular opinion, looting did not start to get worse in Egypt in 2011 after the Arab Spring, but in 2009, after the global recession.
Dr. Bostrom's basic argument is that such systems will eventually have such an insatiable thirst for information that they will perhaps learn how to learn and eventually discover that they may have goals that are contrary to human needs.
That's how we have B's and V's that, contrary to what many people believe, were never differentiated in Spanish pronunciation.
On the contrary, it was completely linked in to the 14,000 kilometers of royal roads the Inca made in less than a century.
On the contrary, you know, if you have the heart to feel and the eyes to see, you discover that the world is not flat.
On the contrary: we are precious, each and every one of us.
It just doesn't fly because it runs contrary to basic human nature.
And when so many of the policies are contrary to fundamental values, that we're all equal under the law, that we're not judged by the color of our skin or the religion we worship, we have to contest those values even as we recognize and honor the fact that our democracy rendered us a president who is championing those values.
Contrary to calculations made by some engineers, bees can fly, dolphins can swim, and geckos can even climb up the smoothest surfaces.
Because this is holy ground, all evidence to the contrary.
Contrary to what many people think, journalists are making value judgments all the time, ethical and moral judgments.
Greg Fishel: The mistake I was making and didn't realize until very recently, was that I was only looking for information to support what I already thought, and was not interested in listening to anything contrary.
This is a feasible goal, basically because, contrary to widespread assumption, I would argue that we know how to do this.
On the contrary, they're sisters."
Contrary to what psychology told us about the bottom 50 percent of the human race in positive affectivity, I think Len is one of the happiest people I know.
On the contrary, existing medical tools often lead to rather high cost per test.
In contrary to the craftsman lifestyle.
On the contrary, those in need are often bombarded with so much information that it's difficult to make sense of it all.
Because contrary to what you might think, this is not devoid of life.
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