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What does on the contrary mean?

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Prepositional phrase
  1. (conjunctive) opposite of what had earlier been expected or assumed
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So it wasn't any contact with civilians, on the contrary, with diehard terrorists who were booby-trapping every corner, every alley, every door.
To put energy into pH regulation to reverse acidosis would not help in this situation, but on the contrary would aggravate the energy problem.
Elitism, on the contrary, is the denigration of art and its consequent maintenance as the preserve of an affluent and educated minority.
We say, on the contrary, that the papal pardons are not able to remove the very least of venial sins, so far as its guilt is concerned.
At best they were footnotes on the contrary theme, at worst outright obfuscation.
The necessarian on the contrary employs real antecedents, and has a right to expect real effects.

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