How to Use obverse in a Sentence
obverse
noun- We thought they would be pleased with our decision. We have learned, however, that the obverse is true.
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The rule of raw power is the obverse of the rule of law.
—WSJ, 23 May 2018
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In many ways, Mr. Davis, 72, is the obverse of Mr. Courtney.
—New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
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In the case of your token, the obverse would have been made with the Sam Houston design, with the backs left blank to be cast with the buyer’s choice.
—Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2022
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The betting, of course, is that the probability of such a turn of events is deemed to be much lower than the obverse.
—Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
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As required by law, the new quarters will keep George Washington’s likeness on the obverse, or heads side, of the coins.
—Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
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The trite but Twitter-ready condition—must love dogs—stretched the challenge by choosing an image of a Shiba Inu, the most cat-like of pooches, for the coin’s obverse.
—David Lavie, Robb Report, 24 May 2021
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On the obverse of each coin was a stylized profile of either Alfred or Ceolwulf.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
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As is now the case, the likeness of George Washington will appear on the obverse, or head, side of the quarter, and a design focused on each woman will be on the reverse side.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
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If the commonwealth’s argument was that each defendant shared in a collective guilt, the defense case was the obverse: that this was a tragedy of the commons.
—Benjamin Wallace, vanityfair.com, 3 Oct. 2017
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With their pea protein isolates, their gum arabic and yeast extracts, these new foods are the opposite of whole foods, the obverse of transparent sourcing.
—Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
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Hot-air balloons are the obverse of modern aeronautical advances, the beautiful black sheep to the success story of the airplane.
—María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
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First minted in 1907, the coin features an image of Lady Liberty striding forward on its obverse and an eagle in flight on its reverse.
—Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2021
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Rental apologies, the obverse of rental scoldings, can be particularly thorny.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
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The obverse of such a strategy is the taking of a position when political advantage, and not principle, beckons.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2021
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The obverse of bullying the vulnerable is protecting them, and Donald Trump has inherited a world where an awful lot of people need protecting.
—Sebastian Junger, The Hive, 25 Apr. 2017
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But the conviction that the truth must be mathematically elegant can easily lead to a false obverse: that what is mathematically elegant must be true.
—The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
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This strategy is the obverse of the investment strategy known as dollar-cost averaging—buying shares at regular intervals.
—M. Todd Henderson, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2021
- We thought they would be pleased with our decision. We have learned, however, that the obverse is true.
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The rule of raw power is the obverse of the rule of law.
—WSJ, 23 May 2018
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In many ways, Mr. Davis, 72, is the obverse of Mr. Courtney.
—New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
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In the case of your token, the obverse would have been made with the Sam Houston design, with the backs left blank to be cast with the buyer’s choice.
—Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2022
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The betting, of course, is that the probability of such a turn of events is deemed to be much lower than the obverse.
—Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
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As required by law, the new quarters will keep George Washington’s likeness on the obverse, or heads side, of the coins.
—Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
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The trite but Twitter-ready condition—must love dogs—stretched the challenge by choosing an image of a Shiba Inu, the most cat-like of pooches, for the coin’s obverse.
—David Lavie, Robb Report, 24 May 2021
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On the obverse of each coin was a stylized profile of either Alfred or Ceolwulf.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
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As is now the case, the likeness of George Washington will appear on the obverse, or head, side of the quarter, and a design focused on each woman will be on the reverse side.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
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If the commonwealth’s argument was that each defendant shared in a collective guilt, the defense case was the obverse: that this was a tragedy of the commons.
—Benjamin Wallace, vanityfair.com, 3 Oct. 2017
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With their pea protein isolates, their gum arabic and yeast extracts, these new foods are the opposite of whole foods, the obverse of transparent sourcing.
—Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
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Hot-air balloons are the obverse of modern aeronautical advances, the beautiful black sheep to the success story of the airplane.
—María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
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