the converse
noun
formal
: something that is the opposite of something else
They need our help, but the converse is also true: we need their help as well.
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El Niño ended in May 2024, and some scientists suspected La Niña, the converse climate pattern in which colder water builds up in the same part of the Pacific, would soon begin.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
As a result, in the last quarter century, leading firms began implementing the converse of Taylor’s dictum.
—Steve Denning, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
While the animal rights movement may have a long way to go in realizing these goals, the converse is also true: progressives must recognize that animal exploitation has serious implications for the broader movement that can no longer be ignored.
—Sunaura Taylor, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024
Think of this as the converse principle: no representation without taxation.
—Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 3 Dec. 2012
That bending is called the converse piezoelectric effect.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2024
Yet the prospect of merging our courses excited me for a kind of parochial reason, as well—the converse of the reason for my past queasiness.
—Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
So the converse of Fermat’s little theorem holds for 3 and 5.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
So the converse of Fermat’s little theorem is false.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
As a result, in the last quarter century, leading firms began implementing the converse of Taylor’s dictum.
—Steve Denning, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
While the animal rights movement may have a long way to go in realizing these goals, the converse is also true: progressives must recognize that animal exploitation has serious implications for the broader movement that can no longer be ignored.
—Sunaura Taylor, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024
Think of this as the converse principle: no representation without taxation.
—Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 3 Dec. 2012
That bending is called the converse piezoelectric effect.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2024
Yet the prospect of merging our courses excited me for a kind of parochial reason, as well—the converse of the reason for my past queasiness.
—Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
So the converse of Fermat’s little theorem holds for 3 and 5.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
So the converse of Fermat’s little theorem is false.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
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“The converse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20converse. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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