as in opposites
something that is as different as possible from something else
the new administration had promised peace and prosperity, but what we got was the obverse: war and recession
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opposites
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In fact, these two are a classic case of opposites attract.—
Madeline Hirsch,
InStyle,
29 May 2026 -
His life is both ordinary and extraordinary, and the storytelling holds those seeming opposites in pleasing tension.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2026
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“Obverses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obverses. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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