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Oppositions parties like Sinn Féin had no such constraints.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2025

Oppositions have yet to bring along Michigan’s Blake Corum, who has reached 1,078 yards rushing already.

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2022

Duke University filed Notice of Oppositions as well, apparently as well as a Cancellation Petition for a “Duke” trademark which had already registered in the past.

From Forbes • Oct. 3, 2014

Internal Oppositions What he came up with was a process he called “metrical modulation.”

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2012

Humour is more interesting than Wit in general, as the Oddities and Foibles of Persons in real Life are more apt to affect our Passions, than any Oppositions or Relations between inanimate Objects.

From An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) by Clifford, James L.