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Adverb
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Since bond yields move inversely to prices, a rise in yields signals falling bond prices.—
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CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025 -
Treasury yields and mortgage rates were inversely correlated with the Fed’s policy rate from September 2024 to to January 2025 – strongly so, at negative 80-90%.—
George Calhoun,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Guardians starter Slade Cecconi — who conversely had the best game of his career — didn’t allow a hit through seven innings.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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Caught Stealing is an intermittently fun experience that would be a better time if Aronofsky either loosened up a little more or, conversely, maintained a tighter grip on the wheel.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
28 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Dolphins contrarily are on a 4-1 run on opening day.—
Greg Cote
September 4,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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My people think differently from you.—
Richard B. Williams,
Denver Post,
10 Sep. 2025
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Even though hybrids and EVs are powered differently than gas cars, their 12-volt accessory batteries can still go flat.—
Melanie Marshall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This creates oxygen for change inside a day that’s otherwise consumed by pings.—
Curt Steinhorst,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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But her husband argues otherwise.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Over the past decades, there were many cases of successful remakes of Portuguese-speaking Brazilian films in Spanish-speaking countries and vice versa.—
Marcelo Cajueiro,
Variety,
9 Sep. 2025
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The Girlfriend — starring Robin Wright, from House of Cards, as Laura, and Olivia Cooke, from House of the Dragon, as Cherry — splits each episode between the POVs of the two most important women in Daniel’s life, showing events from Laura’s perspective, then Cherry’s, or sometimes vice versa.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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