How to Use exact opposite in a Sentence

exact opposite

noun
  • And this team did the exact opposite.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 7 May 2026
  • But the truth is the exact opposite.
    — Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • And told his team to do the exact opposite against the Aztecs.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
  • This one was about the exact opposite.
    — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • But that love is what provoked her to make a film in which the exact opposite is the case.
    — Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Or, do the exact opposite and prove Nico wrong.
    — Jerry Perez, The Drive, 4 June 2026
  • But this lightweight creamy balm is the exact opposite (in the best way).
    — Bianca Lambert, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
  • Grace hasn’t turned against her baby—in fact, the exact opposite.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 May 2025
  • Dalio had been doing the exact opposite for the better part of a decade.
    — Rob Copeland, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • But none of that stopped them from writing the exact opposite in the abstract.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Your response needs to be the exact opposite.
    — Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Star the ones that turned out the exact opposite of your prediction.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Star the ones that turned out the exact opposite of your prediction.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The exact opposite, to be honest with you.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2026
  • And while his fiancée is all about tours, Kelce is the exact opposite.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The very thing that’s supposed to help, is doing the exact opposite.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The stock is down about 11% year to date — the exact opposite of Coke.
    — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 16 July 2025
  • The girls in my class who were called kawaii usually had big eyes and a straight nose, the exact opposite of my own face.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 May 2023
  • But everything he’s done since has done the exact opposite.
    — Shannon Pettypiece, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Instead, the girlies do the exact opposite.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Instead, the girlies do the exact opposite.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The ball is moving, and the players are not, the exact opposite of what football is all about.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The ball is moving, and the players are not, the exact opposite of what football is all about.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In truth, you’re tempted to do the exact opposite of anything that anyone tells you.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Trump has done the exact opposite of what Marshall did in Sweatt.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 29 Mar. 2025
  • China is once again a big variable, but for the exact opposite reason.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
  • But Zaki says, the exact opposite was true.
    — Pauline Bartolone, NPR, 23 May 2026
  • The guy who enlists the exact opposite style of football to Nuno?
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • While this held true for zinc, the correlation was the exact opposite for iron.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
  • The investment memo is almost the exact opposite of a sales pitch.
    — Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang, TIME, 22 May 2024

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