oppose
verb (used with object)
to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
am opposing
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present progressiveof oppose (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am opposing this committee amendment because I believe the attempt of the Department of Agriculture to establish minimum prices ... is an absurdity to the nth degree.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still I say, that there are reasons enough against the practice I am opposing, without this.
From The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
Now, is this, I ask, such an idea as we ought to form of Divine prescience, or such an idea as even the partisans of this system, which I am opposing, form?
From Doctrine of the Will by Asa Mahan
These and others might be dwelt upon with effect; but passing them all, I hasten to the conclusion of my arguments, by urging only one more objection to the system I am opposing.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
