as opposed to
idiom
—used to refer to something that is different from what has just been mentioned
The car gets 30 miles per gallon, as opposed to last year's model, which got only 25.
They use fresh fish, as opposed to fish that has been frozen.
I'd say she is a good player, as opposed to a great one.
Examples of as opposed to in a Sentence
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Developers of these buildings seek power first and communities that can provide the power, as opposed to the cost of land under which the building is constructed.
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Allen Buchanan, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
Cancer is also notorious for needing privacy from time to time, often retreating into their shell to recharge their energy, so their ideal partner would also share the pleasure of spending a cozy night as opposed to a wild night out on the town.
—Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 18 May 2024
Advertisement Established by the Crime Victims Act of 1984, the fund has traditionally been filled by federal prosecutions and asset forfeiture, as opposed to tax revenue.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
The production needed a field that felt lived in, with old wooden bleachers as opposed to newer and now more common aluminum ones, and that wouldn’t be overtaken by recreational soccer leagues during their October 2022 shoot.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
For many — especially younger people — their entire exposure to the conflict has been on social media, as opposed to learning of it on a college campus, through family, or via traditional media.
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 May 2024
The company is developing two new Delta-class spaceplanes which, if all goes according to plan, should be doing hundreds of suborbital flights, as opposed to a half-dozen, in two years.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
Young had his quirks, too, but the mess on offense felt more like a reflection of the ecosystem around the young quarterback as opposed to the inexperienced signal-caller bringing the ship down.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2024
The model is natively multimodal—trained to take in voice and then produce voice, for example—as opposed to taking in the user’s voice, turning it into text that is fed to GPT-4 to create a prompt, and then feeding the resulting output to a text-to-speech model to produce a voice response.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 May 2024
Allen Buchanan, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
Cancer is also notorious for needing privacy from time to time, often retreating into their shell to recharge their energy, so their ideal partner would also share the pleasure of spending a cozy night as opposed to a wild night out on the town.
—Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 18 May 2024
Advertisement Established by the Crime Victims Act of 1984, the fund has traditionally been filled by federal prosecutions and asset forfeiture, as opposed to tax revenue.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
The production needed a field that felt lived in, with old wooden bleachers as opposed to newer and now more common aluminum ones, and that wouldn’t be overtaken by recreational soccer leagues during their October 2022 shoot.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
For many — especially younger people — their entire exposure to the conflict has been on social media, as opposed to learning of it on a college campus, through family, or via traditional media.
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 May 2024
The company is developing two new Delta-class spaceplanes which, if all goes according to plan, should be doing hundreds of suborbital flights, as opposed to a half-dozen, in two years.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
Young had his quirks, too, but the mess on offense felt more like a reflection of the ecosystem around the young quarterback as opposed to the inexperienced signal-caller bringing the ship down.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2024
The model is natively multimodal—trained to take in voice and then produce voice, for example—as opposed to taking in the user’s voice, turning it into text that is fed to GPT-4 to create a prompt, and then feeding the resulting output to a text-to-speech model to produce a voice response.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 May 2024
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“As opposed to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20opposed%20to. Accessed 23 May. 2024.
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