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Some climbed the social ladder from the bottom all the way to the very top, and some made that journey in the opposite direction.
The opposite can happen.
The opposite happens when you eat something with menthol in it.
If you prepare the system of two cats in boxes in this entangled state, then move the boxes to opposite ends of the universe, the outcome of the experiment will still always be the same.
How is it that the states of cats on opposite sides of the universe can be entangled in this way?
In some ways, this is the opposite of seeing floaters.
And cooperative pressure pushes handedness distribution in the opposite direction.
The opposite problem is hypothyroidism, which happens when the thyroid sends out too few hormones, meaning the body's cells don't have as many messengers to guide them.
In fact, just the opposite is true.
On one side, the air moved in the opposite direction to the ball's spin, causing increased pressure, while on the other side, the air moved in the same direction as the spin, creating an area of lower pressure.
But while balding may look permanent, scientific investigation has revealed the opposite.
The pups of negligent moms had the opposite outcome, and so became more sensitive to stress throughout life.
What we've stumbled upon is a case of Simpson's paradox, where the same set of data can appear to show opposite trends depending on how it's grouped.
I thought nothing of it until I saw from the corner of my eye she was walking from the opposite direction, also just staring at me.
Play is the opposite of work.
And he said the problem was quite the opposite, that every cleric that she had talked to had shut her down and said that her rage, her sense of injustice in the world, was just going to get her in trouble.
Meanwhile, the group that switched to a high-fiber, low-fat diet had the opposite result.
In any grid with that configuration, a Hamiltonian path that starts and ends in opposite corners is impossible.
However, in any grid with even numbered sides, opposite corners are the same color, so it's impossible to start and end a Hamiltonian path on opposite corners.
A focus group may have two or more moderators perhaps taking opposite sides on a question, or a researcher might be hidden in the focus group unknown to other participants to see how their answers can be influenced.
Like, this is, temperature-wise, the polar opposite of the Sahara.
And I think computers today are doing quite the opposite.
Exploitation is the opposite.
I'm the opposite.
He added: "Surely, someone at The New Yorker knows the meaning of 'belied,' and that it is the opposite of how it is used in this sentence.
Inside there, on these two opposite sides, there is the secret of translation.
But the opposite keeps happening: the longer we live, the longer we want to live, the less we want to die.
The law forces you to keep selling sex, which is the exact opposite of its intended effect.
It's a machine that will send particles around a tunnel, opposite directions, near the speed of light.
And we collide them with another beam of protons going in the opposite direction.
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