2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, inNew York Times[1]:
In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year,versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.
2005, Robert E. Weiss,Modeling Longitudinal Data, Springer,→ISBN,page104:
If, for example, we select random people entering a workout gym,versus if we pick random people entering a hospital, we will get very different samples.
(law) Bringing alegalaction against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates theplaintiff (orappellant or the like), and the second indicates thedefendant (orrespondent or the like).
“versus”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved4 July 2023
1st century BCE,Marcus Terentius Varro,Rerum rusticarum libri III(Agricultural Topics in Three Books).Liber I, X:
Ille, Modos, quibus metirentur rura, alius alios constituit. Nam in Hispania ulteriore metiuntur iugis,in Campaniaversibus, apud nos in agro Romano ac Latino iugeris. Iugum vocant, quod iuncti boves uno die exarare possint.
Each country has its own method of measuring land. Thus in farther Spain the unit of measure is the iugum,in Campaniathe versus, with us here in the district of Rome and in Latium the iugerum.The iugum is the amount of land which a yoke of oxen can plough in a day; the versus is an area 100 feet square; 2 the iugerum an area containing two square actus.
“versus, -ūs”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"versus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
