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Opposite in sentence

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What's the opposite of terrorism?
Because maintaining that status quo is the opposite of what the fashion industry stands for.
But in 2007, at the height of the sub-prime and all the complicated financial structures, it was quite opposite to the reckless risk-taking behaviors that we saw on the market.
And then on the female side, you have the opposite, in which you have these crazy superhero women.
The participants make a choice, but I end up giving them the opposite.
PJ: So they get the opposite of their choice.
PJ: Not at all? Man: No. Switching the pictures as far as ... PJ: Yeah, you were pointing at one of them but I actually gave you the opposite.
Man: The opposite one.
So first, we walked up to people, we asked them about their voting intention and then when they started filling in, we would fill in a set of answers going in the opposite direction.
But what this shows is that if you can get people to see the opposite view and engage in a conversation with themselves, that could actually make them change their views.
And we can also change the minds of others, if we can only get them to engage with the issue and see it from the opposite view.
Paradise is quite the opposite.
But it's the exact opposite in health care.
China, over the same time period, went in exactly the opposite direction, very painfully holding this huge civilization, civilization-state, together.
The opposite, as we know, is also true, often more true.
Completely opposite.
And then someone else has something the complete opposite of yours.
What we've done, we've just sealed both the ends with tape, nipped the right corner and the bottom left corner, so there's holes in the opposite corners, there's a little hole over here.
And they do the opposite of the molecule I told you about before, with the blue light activator, channelrhodopsin.
And this is the reason: in two countries that hadn't had this disease for more than probably a decade, on opposite sides of the globe, there was suddenly terrible polio outbreaks.
"It's funny," I said to myself, "You can mingle with the opposite sex at the holy Kaaba, but not at the Burger King?" (Laughter) Quite, quite ironic.
We have this concept that the opposite of play is work.
The opposite of play is not work.
The opposite of play is depression.
They don't know what to say, they don't know what to do, especially one-on-one [with the] opposite sex.
From our work, we're learning that the opposite of a stressed and wandering mind is a mindful one.
Actually, exactly the opposite is what I'm going to do.
So she'd act as if what she wanted was just the opposite of what the babies wanted.
And I think just the opposite is true.
That same word, "normal," had two different, almost opposite meanings.
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