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op·pos·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. opponent, opposingadjective

    characterized by active hostility

    "opponent (or opposing) armies"

Wiktionary

  1. opposingadjective

    That opposes or oppose; on the opposite side.

    opposing armies

ChatGPT

  1. opposing

    Opposing refers to the act of resisting, challenging, combating, or standing against someone or something. It often implies a sense of conflict or discord, indicating a disagreement or difference in opinions, perspectives, or aims. This term can be used in a wide variety of contexts, including everything from a debate to sports. It may relate to actions, views, or entities that are contrasting or contradictory to each other.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of opposing in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of opposing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of opposing in a Sentence

  1. Candice Bergen:

    The first act that he does when he has a chance to do something -- he doesn't go through step one, two, three -- he goes straight to 100 and invokes the Emergencies Act, i don't think anything that we will see will change our mind, we will be opposing it.

  2. Adam Mosseri:

    We’re trying to figure out what people find interesting, people find opposing views interesting.

  3. Hillary Clinton:

    Whats at stake in our country, the kind of things that are happening right now are deeply troubling to me. And Im also thinking hard about how do we start talking and listening to each other again? weve just gotten so polarized. Weve gotten into really opposing camps unlike anything Ive ever seen in my adult life.

  4. Wai Wah Chin:

    They are against racial discrimination, but pernicious division and discrimination by race have been ongoing for a long time in admissions, so there is wrongful resistance to a change back to privileging individual merit. Those who see everything through the lens of color, want a superficial skin color result, or benefit from that, should join us in opposing discriminating by race.

  5. Justice Potter Stewart:

    The state may not establish a ‘religion of secularism’ in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus ‘preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.

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