oppugns

present tense third-person singular of oppugn

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • The Trades as a Leadership Classroom Tradespeople face complex, high stakes challenges every day.
    Dan Ringo, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • A student at the center of high-profile Supreme Court challenges to bans on transgender athletes on female sports teams wants the court to drop her case.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The administration counters that the injunction forces the executive branch to take steps that undermine its own policy, including negotiating with foreign governments over funds the president opposes and sending contradictory signals to Congress.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Kelley is chastised and eventually replaced by Gustave Gilbert (Colin Hanks), a rival psychologist with a different take, one that opposes Kelley’s more humanistic approach in defining the horrors of that time.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Marketing reports on volume, while sales questions the quality.
    Cameron Partridge, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Virgil van Dijk took the same action to get out of Southampton and nobody questions his attitude.
    Simon Hughes, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Under a new deal with CBS and Paramount+, UFC fights will be available for all subscribers.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Days later, then-Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley announced a campaign challenging the former governor as the GOP fights to keep the Senate seat red.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Lately Rigel has seen big sales increases for a few of its drugs, notably Tavelisse, which combats a condition in which the body’s immune system attacks its own blood platelets.
    John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Ant International claims the platform combats hallucinations and other data risks by using over 100 recognition models and 600,000 risk lexicons.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Oppugns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oppugns. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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