as in opposite
something that is as different as possible from something else
the new administration had promised peace and prosperity, but what we got was the obverse: war and recession
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as in reverse
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Recent Examples of obverse
Dominic Pino, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
Then, in an obverse of the way such situations usually go, in 1999 Thorn and Watt ankled the group but remained together as a couple, raising a family and occasionally releasing solo albums over the next 24 years.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
The obverse side will still feature the portrait of former President George Washington by Laura Gardin Fraser.
—Jordan D. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
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Noun
But the two scary-sounding facts have happy-sounding obverses.
—Dominic Pino, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
Then, in an obverse of the way such situations usually go, in 1999 Thorn and Watt ankled the group but remained together as a couple, raising a family and occasionally releasing solo albums over the next 24 years.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
Adjective
The obverse side of the communications coin is that without TLS encryption, that information is there for anyone to sniff out.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
The obverse side will still feature the portrait of former President George Washington by Laura Gardin Fraser.
—Jordan D. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
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Noun
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Known on the international festival circuit for his epically minimalist features with bladder-busting running times, his movies are challenging, high-art dramas made for a very select few — the opposite of the flashy, ADHD-friendly content found on streamers.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
24 May 2025
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But Toile Blanche, the Leroy Brothers’ longtime hotel in Provence, is the opposite of all that.—
Ann Abel,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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Those include cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, and doggy style—basically anything that doesn’t place weight directly on the vibrator, like missionary.—
Natalie Arroyo Camacho,
StyleCaster,
22 May 2025
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So Akasha performed a reverse image search on a product shot of the powdered bark that his source had sent him.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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One basis point is equivalent to 0.01%, and yields and prices have an inverse relationship.—
Brian Evans,Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
13 May 2025
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The lottery determines the order of the top four picks, with teams then picking in inverse order of record.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Obverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obverse. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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