as opposed to

idiom

—used to refer to something that is different from what has just been mentioned

The car gets 30 miles per gallon, as opposed to last year's model, which got only 25.

They use fresh fish, as opposed to fish that has been frozen.

I'd say she is a good player, as opposed to a great one.

Examples of as opposed to in a Sentence

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The team found from monitoring the Cork office, for instance, that shrinking to one floor as opposed to four provided employees greater opportunity to run into one another and collaborate across teams. —Trey Williams, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024

Good news for composers The best original score category will now release a shortlist of 20 titles, as opposed to 15. —Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2024

In 1983, the Supreme Court ruled in Bearden v. Georgia that courts must determine whether a defendant has the ability to pay, as opposed to willfully refusing to pay, before revoking probation for failure to pay a fine. —Isabelle Kause, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2024

One reason appears to take practical considerations into account as opposed to moral or legal elements. —Rafael Perez, Orange County Register, 20 Apr. 2024

In 2021, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) and the Television Academy jointly announced plans to realign the Daytime and Primetime Emmy Awards to be organized by content genre, as opposed to program airtime. —Paul Grein, Billboard, 19 Apr. 2024

Avoid prints like the plague In Beckham’s world, someone’s everyday clothes should whisper as opposed to shout. —Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024

Tony and his friends this election year are more concerned with economic issues as opposed to some of the more social issues. —Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024

Ukraine had a bitter experience with a less ironclad version of this sort of agreement: a multilateral security assurance, as opposed to a guarantee. —Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024