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contradiction

[kon-truh-dik-shuhn] / ˌkɒn trəˈdɪk ʃən /


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To investigate this apparent contradiction, the research team tested 12 different diets in mice.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Indeed, the world now faces another apparent contradiction, or at least a historical irony.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Although Princess Anne observed that the term "fun run" was a contradiction in terms.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The contradiction of “Abrázame” is that everyone kept telling me that it should continue going up and explode at the end, but I had already overused that device on “Epistolares.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Mami's tone of voice did not invite contradiction.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The patchwork of ancient material is complicated by contradictions, gaps and overlaps, leaving what the Sicilian historian Diodorus could describe in the first century B.C. as a “variegated and inconsistent account of Medea.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

These contradictions have led researchers to different conclusions about how ancient species behaved.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

It didn’t hurt that Smith gave the performance of a lifetime, putting her heart and soul into the melodramatic contradictions of the character, antagonizing Arnold one second and swooning over him the next.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Both men deny intentionally ever taking performance-enhancing drugs, but away from that issue their showdown is wrapped in the contradictions that define modern boxing.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Nevertheless, with one of those startling contradictions so common in mythology, she kept the Greek Fleet from sailing to Troy until they sacrificed a maiden to her.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton


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