Opposite
in sentence
2010 examples of Opposite in a sentence
This is the
opposite
of what we were built on: independence, self-sufficiency, autonomy.
In this project I wanted to work in the
opposite
direction and find an absolute catalog, something that I couldn't interrupt, curate or edit by choice.
People with low expectations do the
opposite.
Luckily, we were already moving in the
opposite
direction.
I imagine that some of you are wondering what the connection is between the innocuous and the horrific, two things that seem to be on
opposite
ends of the spectrum.
But it was exactly the
opposite
in Egypt.
In science, the exact
opposite
is the case: March away from the sound of the guns.
Anyone who's used Google Earth has seen this before, but one thing we like to say in our group is, we do the
opposite
of Google Earth.
It should, because the top five traits of post-traumatic growth are essentially the direct
opposite
of the top five regrets of the dying.
And it might happen the opposite, the other way around.
And I see the same picture, but from the
opposite
side.
We do exactly the
opposite.
We do the
opposite
of them.
In this map from Moldova, the green color shows those districts that have low spending on schools but good educational outcomes, and the red color shows the
opposite.
As soon as it walks into either the rolling surf or the dry sand, it stops, and walks in the
opposite
direction.
And in this experiment here, what we did was we forced them into a channel, and you can see he wasn't particularly forced into this particular channel, and we gradually displaced the beetle by 180 degrees until this individual ends up going in exactly the
opposite
direction that it wanted to go in, in the first place.
At the time I was just beginning to emerge from this eight-year personal identity crisis zigzag that saw me go from being a boy to being this awkward girl that looked like a boy in girl's clothes to the
opposite
extreme of this super skimpy, over-compensating, boy-chasing girly-girl to finally just a hesitant exploration of what I actually was, a tomboyish girl who liked both boys and girls depending on the person.
If savings is current pain in exchange for future pleasure, smoking is just the
opposite.
What we should expect then is the
opposite
effect.
So I then began looking at all the research plots I could over the whole of the Western United States where cattle had been removed to prove that it would stop desertification, but I found the opposite, as we see on this research station, where this grassland that was green in 1961, by 2002 had changed to that situation.
When I was 19, I wrote, "I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite."
We tend to infer the normal function of something by what doesn't happen when we take it away, by the
opposite
of what we see when we take it away.
We do the opposite, which is: everybody gets all the information.
They want to press the
opposite
screen of the chimp.
I've heard other people say quite the opposite, that this is yet another tier of the middle class that's having the thing they can do taken away from them by a new technology and that this is actually something ominous, something that we should worry about.
The
opposite
happens when you extend your ankle.
If we look at the returns to labor, in other words total wages paid out in the economy, we see them at an all-time low and heading very quickly in the
opposite
direction.
But I think the truth is the exact
opposite.
Nothing can be further from the dragon-king concept I propose, which is exactly the opposite, that most extreme events are actually knowable and predictable.
Doubly ironic, in this case, because their absolutism is in fact the
opposite
of faith.
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