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Mr. Morris said in a statement that such music “happens to be vast, contradictory, and full of invention, so there’s plenty to work with.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

“The traditional models of diplomacy have resulted in duplicative or even contradictory foreign policy actions,” Kelly said in an email.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

"Markets are once again being forced to trade two seemingly contradictory stories on the same screen," said Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

The researchers say these seemingly contradictory cosmological puzzles may actually point toward the same conclusion.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

Just as the father brimmed with contradictory feelings as he crept along the wall—humiliation, anger, and a grudging feeling of pride in his son—so the son felt his own contradictions.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

The two principles are merged in one, and the contradiction solved by an assertion of the identity of the contradictories.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

But it is impossible for the definition to be separated from the thing defined, since this would mean that contradictories exist together.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

For it would follow that contradictories can exist at the one time: for the "definition of a thing is what its name expresses," as is said in Metaph. iv.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

This necessity of accepting one of the contradictories is wholly based upon the supposed impossibility of a mean; if a mean exists, that may be true, and both contradictories together false.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

It was in view of such perplexities as these that Aristotle set forth the true contradictories of his four Modals.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William