How to Use contrarian in a Sentence

contrarian

noun
  • As an investor, he's a contrarian, preferring to buy stocks when most people are selling.
  • Which is why savvy contrarians dig through the Sell bin.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Burry made his name as a contrarian, and that hasn’t changed.
    — Ye Xie, Fortune, 16 May 2023
  • The contrarian read says none of this matters.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • But the past 12 months have silenced any and all contrarians.
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Each house except for a few lone contrarians is oriented east to west and thatched.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2024
  • The contrarian in this column wants to take this consensus as a bullish sign.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Her path to North State contrarian may have been forged early in her life.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Stocks are sky-high, but us contrarians are looking for dividend deals.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • Larry David is a contrarian for the ages — and, in this commercial, through the ages.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
  • This may be the right time to awaken your inner contrarian – and go in the other direction.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
  • This one is a textbook contrarian play on the herd’s inflation panic.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • That has some contrarians worried about what will happen when central banks move away from stimulus.
    — Stan Choe, The Seattle Times, 17 June 2017
  • For patient contrarians, Brighthouse might be a risk worth taking.
    — Aaron Back, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Her Times columns drew buzz for views that often appeared contrarian on its left-leaning opinion pages.
    — Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • But there are contrarians everywhere on social media, and some thought the catch should not have counted (although most folks were blown away by the play).
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Keep in mind that contrarian investing doesn’t mean going against the market without proper research or a plan.
    — James Nelson, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This is an entry point for savvy contrarians, and what’s happening here isn’t unique to GDV.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Travelers have always been contrarians, but never like this.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • The first act was basically being a contrarian to everybody on stage.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Ever contrarian, Forbes was skeptical—not just of plate readers, but of license plates themselves.
    — Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The Grouch is a contrarian who despises things most people enjoy, such as rainbows, chocolate, and candy.
    — Casey Clark, Parents, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The irrepressible author and public contrarian had died, of esophageal cancer, less than six months earlier.
    — David Amsden, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Some contrarians will argue that most people don’t need life insurance because most people don’t die before their life expectancy.
    — WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Another group had 20 members and five contrarians—and that one extra person made all the difference.
    — David Noonan, Scientific American, 8 June 2018
  • Not surprisingly, Barkley is a bit of a contrarian in regards to the protest movement in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 24 June 2020
  • The contrarians say their communities are thriving as is, and that's why Amazon is interested in the first place.
    — Bloomberg, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The rise in bullish sentiment also has contrarians anticipating the other shoe will soon drop, as they investors could be done with buying stocks.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Ever the contrarian, Rødland decided to forge a middle path.
    — Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
  • As contrarians, we’re intrigued.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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