vice versa

Definition of vice versanext

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Recent Examples of vice versa As in the old Actors Studio days, the performers here shape the characters as much as vice versa. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026 Bond yields fall as prices rise, and vice versa. Rachel Barber, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026 Investors seemed tired of his flip-flopping rhetoric on the war, and have started paying attention instead directly to the signal of Israel continuing to strike Iran, and vice versa. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026 The answer to this is neither; drinking hot water isn’t more hydrating or better than cold water or vice versa. Audrey Noble, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for vice versa
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Adverb
  • Somewhat remarkably, Sidney Crosby was only responsible for one of those goals, as the captain has missed 12 contests due to injury and has otherwise been a little off his game.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Supporters say her work helped broaden conversations around art, sexuality and censorship, while preserving pieces that might otherwise have remained hidden or discarded.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Increasingly, taxpayer advocates are taking a hard look at city policies that offer developers hefty tax incentives, or, conversely, reduce the value of existing properties, disincentivizing private-sector investment in the city.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Requiring hours of collaboration and complex coding, the 1976 animation is, conversely, one of Bettina’s most visually straightforward objects.
    Katherine Rochester, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Made with Flourish • Create a chart Bond yields — which move inversely to bond prices — have been steadily rising throughout March, as investors race to reprice the chances of rate hikes from central banks.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Doing so might be the result of social conditioning, making women more sensitive to emotional realities and comfortable expressing them — and, inversely, social conditioning making men less sensitive to emotional realities and more uncomfortable expressing them.
    Elissa Strauss, CNN Money, 18 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • Electrostatic forces occur when oppositely charged particles interact with each other.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2019
Adverb
  • Each independent advocate works differently, doing anything from helping people figure out how to take the next steps after a diagnosis to battling with insurance companies to getting patients in quickly for a test or a second opinion.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Researchers have found that our brains process reading a physical book differently than when using an e-reader, which strips away that physical connection.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026

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“Vice versa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vice%20versa. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.

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