1
as in unfavorable
opposed to one's interests
all the adverse publicity really caused the movie star's popularity to suffer
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as in detrimental
causing or capable of causing harm
the adverse effects of the drug are too severe to allow it to be marketed
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Recent Examples of adverse
People are notoriously adverse to change, often finding the loss of something in particular tough.
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Callum Booth, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
The disruptions follow a complete shutdown of all flights at MYR on Tuesday night due to adverse weather conditions.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
During adverse weather conditions, backcountry areas are prone to have electricity cut because they are often located in or around wind corridors.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Additionally, a Human Rights Watch report last August revealed pregnant women exposed to wildfire smoke have a higher likelihood of adverse birth outcomes, including low birth weight.
—Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
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Callum Booth, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
The disruptions follow a complete shutdown of all flights at MYR on Tuesday night due to adverse weather conditions.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
During adverse weather conditions, backcountry areas are prone to have electricity cut because they are often located in or around wind corridors.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Additionally, a Human Rights Watch report last August revealed pregnant women exposed to wildfire smoke have a higher likelihood of adverse birth outcomes, including low birth weight.
—Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adverse
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And in the real world, government actors try every trick possible to evade an unfavorable judgment.—
James S. Burling,
National Review,
23 Jan. 2025
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The dollar hit a new two-week low, but the impact unfavorable exchange rates have on revenues from multinational companies was more visible Wednesday.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
22 Jan. 2025
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Such responses hinder the efficacy of gene editing treatments and could also be detrimental, eliminating the cells targeted for modification.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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But at his worst, these game-breaking qualities can be detrimental.—
Elias Burke,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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However, again, some negative purists in the community will argue that there’s no replacement for brute force horsepower in traditional rendering.—
Dave Altavilla,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Layering tragedy atop tragedy One of the immediate negative effects of the Marshall Fire was substantial price gouging, which further compounded issues for affected renters such as Christina Eisert.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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In an October 2022 article in the Montreal Gazette, Bryn Austin, a professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, highlighted how BMI can lead to harmful outcomes.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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Market intervention is always and everywhere harmful simply because markets are people.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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Both saw themselves as outsiders in a hostile environment.—
Ruth Margalit,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Aber’s book is successful in showing that self-hatred is the fruit not of a few particular traumas but rather of a hostile environment’s erosive drip on the psyche.—
Jasmine Vojdani,
Vulture,
13 Jan. 2025
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Mother Nature exploded in Los Angeles this month with the most damaging wildfires in the city’s, and likely the nation’s, history.—
Carmen Balber,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
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The deficit hawks said the package must be paid for by other changes to the budget — a stipulation that infuriated Republicans from New York and New Jersey, where the storm was most damaging, and triggered an internal fight within the GOP that benefited Democrats politically.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
16 Jan. 2025
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Key to that endeavor are the mostly undocumented day laborers who often do the physically taxing and dangerous work of clearing the rubble after a natural disaster recedes.—
Samantha Delouya,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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Inappropriate links in search results get a red highlight and icon, just like dangerous links.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
24 Jan. 2025
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For better or worse, the author brand has become as integral to literary success as the writing itself.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
23 Jan. 2025
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Daily How Nike’s new CEO plans to rebound from its worst year ever Sheryl Estrada NewslettersTerm Sheet Yan-David Erlich, former Weights and Biases executive, joins B Capital as general partner Allie Garfinkle NewslettersData Sheet The key to Netflix’s blowout earnings?—
Brit Morse,
Fortune,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Adverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adverse. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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