oppositely

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oppositely
Adverb
  • Stock and Treasury securities prices typically move inversely to one another.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Bond prices move inversely to yields, and rising yields could mean higher U.S. mortgage rates.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Books like those by Louis and Ernaux, conversely, avoid this trap, Larson and Quart argue.
    Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
  • White dwarfs, conversely, are the cosmic corpses of smaller stars with masses more in line with that of the sun.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • David Allison, the dean of the public-health school at Indiana University-Bloomington and an obesity researcher who, along with Peter Attia, has advised Rahal, frames it differently.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Instead, the meeting with relegation all-but-certainties Ipswich gave Arteta an opportunity to rediscover a key element of his team’s recent successes and deploy other players differently to mix up how Arsenal attacked.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • This has to be managed in a way that ensures that only other power plants get the first electrons to start moving on the grid, otherwise the normal demand would immediately overwhelm the limited number of small plants that are operating.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Pacioretty came close to scoring in Game 4, but otherwise struggled with the pace of play, and Bobby McMann has just one assist in the series after scoring 20 goals this season.
    James Mirtle, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Until then Derby or Bolton or whichever club would receive 20 per cent of the gate money when visiting Anfield or Old Trafford and vice versa.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • On another note, the full moon in Scorpio on May 12 highlights your domestic fourth house of home, family and emotional foundations, urging you to consider how your career impacts your personal life and vice versa.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Oppositely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oppositely. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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