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
Along with her own moral oppositions, O'Donnell recounted facing pushback from her teenage child, Clay.
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Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 May 2026
With Trump, these oppositions are never absolute.
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Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Some of their goals from throw-ins, with oppositions backing off in anticipation and possibly fear of one of Pinnock’s long throws, have also come from quick restarts and delivering quality crosses into the box.
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Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2026
In myth and art, de Bres notes, twins stand in for any number of symbolic oppositions.
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Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Such countervailing power greatly exceeds anything available to oppositions in Hungary, India, or Turkey, let alone in El Salvador, Venezuela, Russia, and other autocracies.
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Steven Levitsky,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Dec. 2025
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.
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Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 May 2026
With Trump, these oppositions are never absolute.
—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Some of their goals from throw-ins, with oppositions backing off in anticipation and possibly fear of one of Pinnock’s long throws, have also come from quick restarts and delivering quality crosses into the box.
—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2026
In myth and art, de Bres notes, twins stand in for any number of symbolic oppositions.
—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Such countervailing power greatly exceeds anything available to oppositions in Hungary, India, or Turkey, let alone in El Salvador, Venezuela, Russia, and other autocracies.
—
Steven Levitsky,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Dec. 2025
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.
—
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
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The politically complicated situation has raised a few eyebrows — and ethical concerns — among some aldermen who passed the legislation allowing VGTs over the objections of Mayor Brandon Johnson.
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When New England became a stop on major international trade routes, the multicultural floodgates opened and Puritan objections to things like fashion, elaborate design, lavish displays of wealth and other things deemed excessive were being continually, casually challenged.
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Thornton’s latest work has the potential to reach more audiences precisely because of the Huckleberry Finn-like spirit of its Kid and Max saga, giving more folks the opportunity to learn about colonialist histories and indigenous resistances in the lands down under.
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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).
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