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per contra

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Definition of per contra

as in even so

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Fedorov stopped short of launching a direct challenge to the president, but even so political and public support for Zelenskyy seems more fragile than ever.

— Will Barker, TheWeek, 20 Aug. 2026
And even so, shouldn’t poor play incentivize keeping the first team out there to codify communication, to establish routine, to actually execute?

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of even so

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That season, however, there was only a one-week break between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl, depriving the league of its normal buffer zone.

— Michael Silver, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Perhaps more significantly, however, is that the same logic will apply to all other cases where the DOE has attempted to force plants to stay open.

— John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of however

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Hassan Saboula, director of Jawf's civil defense agency, said a child was among the 23 killed Monday and that rescue teams were still searching for seven missing from the attack.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
Coal, which still supplies about 53% of China's energy mix by Wang's estimate, acted as a crucial shock absorber, allowing the economy to substitute away from oil when prices spiked.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of still

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Ancelotti, though, could have spent the past four weeks in Europe and still barely caught a glance of Estevao Willian, Brazil’s would-be attacking talisman.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
At another point, though, a lady asks -- perhaps a bit too flippantly -- what's so special about Ten House.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of though

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Granted, not as agonizing as a Cleveland Browns fan watching the team’s quarterback competition play out in training camp, but agonizing nonetheless.

— Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Both of the designers’ dogs nonetheless feature front and center in the campaign imagery for Etsy’s new Susan Alexandra x Rachel Antonoff storefront, modeling the coquettish collars and darling headcoverings.

— Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026

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