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The calming locales both complement and contradict the plot’s revelations, which are hardly bombshells but do speak to how well-to-do families labor to shove inconvenient skeletons into the closet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Israeli officials say the deal’s security annex doesn’t contradict their freedom of action against emerging and developing threats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Notably, no-one in the squad moved to contradict Uruguay's all-time leading scorer.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

The retailer called the plaintiffs’ argument “fatally flawed,” adding, “Plaintiffs’ own sources contradict it, the regulations of the U.S.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

She glared at Pearl and Mia fiercely, as if she thought they might contradict her.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

The other says it contradicts civil rights laws.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

It sounds like Justice Alito’s opinion contradicts the reality on the ground.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

This contradicts the seemingly common-sense notion that making information more widely accessible would lead to more efficient markets.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

“If nobody contradicts him, he himself becomes his own dialectical force,” Obermann said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

“It almost contradicts itself,” she says after a moment.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Xiao’s reveal drove the Americans to openly lambast each other, as one official dismissed Xiao’s assessments, only to be contradicted by colleagues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Judge Emeka Nwite, who presided over the case, said the evidence presented against them was "neither shaken nor contradicted during cross examination".

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Replimune pushed back on the FDA’s claims that feedback had been consistent, saying the agency contradicted several of the points it raised at a meeting last year in its latest letter.

From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026

A government witness, jurors said, had contradicted himself a few times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

He understood that his thoughts contradicted his actions; he had long since accepted that.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

In March, Jefferies analyst Surinder Thind said he’d seen no evidence of a recovery in customer appetite, directly contradicting management’s upbeat commentary.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

In 1974, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes radiate heat and can eventually evaporate, apparently erasing all information about what fell into them — contradicting the quantum principle that evolution must preserve information.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026

The lawsuit claims The Atlantic went ahead with their story “despite being expressly warned, hours before publication, that the central allegations were categorically false” and “despite having abundant publicly available information contradicting those allegations.”

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2026

"It becomes very dark when religion is used to justify immoral behaviour... using religion to justify especially dropping bombs is contradicting what the faith is about," says Bishop Strickland.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

She held her head bowed down, as if she wanted to view Gregor better, but ran senselessly back, contradicting that gesture, forgetting that behind her stood the table with all the dishes on it.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka