How to Use adversarial in a Sentence

adversarial

adjective
  • Even the darkness of the risers on the stage gives this, like, adversarial sense.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 26 Apr. 2025
  • This gave the researchers a sense of how well the adversarial prompt performed.
    — Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
  • This wasn’t meant to be adversarial.
    — Eric Adler march 1, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2026
  • This kind of rhetoric erodes public trust in our adversarial system of justice as well as the trust clients must have in their lawyers.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Find ways to turn an adversarial situation into an event that is win-win for both sides.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2020
  • But now the two sides have returned to a fully adversarial posture.
    — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
  • First, the practice of law is often adversarial — there are winners and losers.
    — Katie Reilly, Time, 11 May 2018
  • Despite the adversarial titles of their talks, the two researchers find a lot of common ground.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 23 May 2018
  • But how adversarial did things seem with Charli?
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
  • And particularly in a state that tends to be a bit adversarial to cities and not as focused.
    — Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • The pattern held even when the models were assigned adversarial roles.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The primary shift has been the rise of China as an adversarial state.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The legal profession is unique in that every part of it is adversarial.
    — Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Keep an eye out for an adversarial new character that will give Harvey a run for his money.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The affiliative joke wants to belong; the adversarial joke wants to set apart.
    — Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
  • These adversarial twins will have to learn to get over their differences and trust each other in order to save themselves and save the world.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Test with adversarial inputs — users trying to break your system.
    — Joe Toscano, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Doshi noted that making a model safe and ready for wide release involves adversarial testing and lots of hands-on time.
    — ArsTechnica, 4 Apr. 2025
  • This was never an adversarial case.
    — ABC News, 31 May 2026
  • A lot of peopl,e when they are challenged, focused on the adversarial quality.
    — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 30 June 2017
  • Leaders don’t need to see unions as adversarial—and a new class teaches them that organized labor might even be good for business.
    — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2023
  • But the adversarial nature of the process can be highly productive.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Already, the state seems to be preparing for an adversarial ruling.
    — Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
  • First, the researchers were able to find adversarial suffixes that can be appended to almost any prompt.
    — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
  • By the time adversarial use became unavoidable, the structure was already in place.
    — Joern Hackbarth, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Then, Kelley left the meeting, and the discussion took a more adversarial tone.
    — Robin Goist, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Not just the two people who are in an adversarial situation, but the onlookers around.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 5 Nov. 2025
  • But legal scholars warn that the restrictions aimed at the law firms strike at the rule of law and the nation's adversarial system of justice.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2025
  • But that's the way our government works best — when there is an aggressive and adversarial press to hold our politicians accountable.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2018
  • Though awareness and tools can help mitigate the long-term cost of divorce, the system does not need to be so adversarial, drawn-out, and expensive.
    — Rebecca Feinglos, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2023

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