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au contraire
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    "Mais, ma bonne amie," said Prince Andrew, "vous devriez au contraire m'etre reconnaissante de ce que j'explique a Pierre votre intimite avec ce jeune homme."†  (source)
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    "Au contraire," the beetle buzzed.†  (source)
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    Au contraire, it advances us enormously, but enormously!†  (source)
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    Au contraire, it interests me enormously.†  (source)
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    Au contraire.†  (source)
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    Many wrote New Orleans off after the Hurricane, but au contraire.†
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    The French apparently never got the memo that the Internet is a borderless network where national law can't be effectively applied. Au contraire: on Monday a Paris court ordered eBay to pay $63 million in damages to units of the Paris-based luxury goods mammoth LVMH, after agreeing that the site had facilitated the sale of counterfeit versions of its high-end products, particularly Louis Vuitton luggage.†  (source)
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