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antithetical

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Antithetical (adj) means involving a direct contrast or opposition between ideas or wording.

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Involving a direct contrast or opposition between ideas or wording.

"Yet as Mr. Altman raised OpenAI’s profile, some board members worried that ChatGPT’s success was antithetical to creating safe A.I., two people familiar with their thinking said." — Tripp Mickle, Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence (2023)

"This is precisely why insistence on relative truth is antithetical to critical thinking."

"His wrong-headed beliefs are antithetical to everything we stand for as a community."

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