as in oppositions
the inclination to resist
the troubled youth seems to have an ingrained defiance to authority of any sort
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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
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Republicans’ stated objections to the bill, however, dealt mostly with other sections that were unrelated to the legality of plug-in solar devices.—
John Moritz,
Hartford Courant,
25 Mar. 2026
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO), an international astronomy research organization that operates some of the world's largest telescopes, has also filed objections against the two proposals.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
22 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
20 Feb. 2026
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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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