contradiction

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To explore this contradiction, researchers analyzed 196 overnight recordings from 44 healthy adults.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

"There is a kind of contradiction between Trump's stance and Netanyahu's," he told the BBC.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Steven J. Lockjaw, a military officer obsessed with Taylor’s revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills, overtly embodies this contradiction.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

Jean doesn’t try to explain away the contradiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Well, I was and yet I was invisible, that was the fundamental contradiction.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison