1
as in resistance
the inclination to resist
most of the opposition to the proposed smoking ban is coming from bar owners worried about its impact on their businesses
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as in oppositeness
the quality or state of being as different as possible
her actions stand in direct opposition to her words
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Recent Examples of opposition
Venezuela’s opposition and human rights groups have said for years that the country’s socialist government uses detentions to stamp out dissent.
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Reuters, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
María Corina Machado said Monday that a Venezuelan opposition leader was seized in Caracas shortly after being released from jail.
—Ashley Carnahan, FOXNews.com, 9 Feb. 2026
Efforts to expand pipelines running through New York are also often met with strong local opposition.
—John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 9 Feb. 2026
Canada’s roster is more experienced, returning 16 players from the team that dominated the 2022 Beijing Games by winning all seven games and outscoring its opposition 57-10.
—John Wawrow, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
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Reuters, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
María Corina Machado said Monday that a Venezuelan opposition leader was seized in Caracas shortly after being released from jail.
—Ashley Carnahan, FOXNews.com, 9 Feb. 2026
Efforts to expand pipelines running through New York are also often met with strong local opposition.
—John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 9 Feb. 2026
Canada’s roster is more experienced, returning 16 players from the team that dominated the 2022 Beijing Games by winning all seven games and outscoring its opposition 57-10.
—John Wawrow, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for opposition
Noun
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Against this backdrop, A-list film festivals have become vital platforms for Iranian cinema as a form of cultural resistance.—
Tina Ahmadi Krol,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Feb. 2026
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For example, researchers envision a skin cream that protects troops from frostbite, developed by mimicking the biological cold-resistance strategies these organisms evolved over millennia.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026
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He's gotten his legislative agenda through the House and the Senate without any objection of any meaningful sort.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Feb. 2026
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Praise for the post being removed More Republicans lodged their objections to the post after the video was taken down.—
Matt Brown,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Feb. 2026
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Experimental and first-principles studies confirm that MoSi2 exhibits axis-dependent conduction polarity (ADCP) in both the Seebeck and Hall coefficients.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Solar maximum occurs in the middle of that 11-year cycle, when the magnetic polarity of the sun flips.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The model was developed in 2020 to describe the growing divergence among consumers post-COVID.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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This divergence is often the first tell that the dominant bearish trend is losing steam and a reversal is brewing.—
Nishant Pant,
CNBC,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Opposition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opposition. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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