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What does to the contrary mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word to the contrary? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. Alternative form of on the contrary
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There is an increasingly persuasive body of evidence and learned opinion to the contrary.
It is the concern of the bank that prices have bombed along despite expectations to the contrary, he said.
All claims to the contrary, we must learn to live with partial truths even within revealed religions.
The claim that doing harm is no worse than allowing harm flies in the face of powerful intuitions to the contrary.
The wafer fabrication plant apparently did not meet either criterion, despite IDA claims to the contrary.
Long ago I was told by an older and worldly wise relative that lying was a dying art, in spite of apparent evidence to the contrary.

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