as in objections
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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Recent Examples of oppositions
Rossellini’s film is part of a distinctive canon of modernist melodramas that self-consciously acknowledge the tension of those oppositions and foreground their symbolic disruption of realistic conventions.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2025
This puts a spotlight on your career, but oppositions to Saturn and Neptune in your 10th house force you to balance work demands with family obligations and responsibilities.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2025
This puts a spotlight on your career, but oppositions to Saturn and Neptune in your 10th house force you to balance work demands with family obligations and responsibilities.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oppositions
Noun
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Broadway workers flocked to public hearings to voice – and sometimes sing – their objections to the proposal.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
17 Sep. 2025
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Participants met with the Hawks’ sales leadership for two hours every Friday, with lessons covering scheduling appointments, working through objections, and using and developing sales scripts.—
Ryan Stowers,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Instead, in most analog AI schemes, the weights are stored in one of several types of nonvolatile memory as a conductance value (the resistances above).—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 June 2025
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“Oppositions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oppositions. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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