contradictory
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He said the correct Fed policy decision would be to stay on hold until these contradictory signals abate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Customers complained the line from the Ayn Rand book “Atlas Shrugged,” which promotes self-interest, was contradictory to the inclusive teachings of yoga.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
So her personal information, spread over multiple government databases, is messy, incomplete, often contradictory and may even have been inadvertently combined with others who share her name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Gomez's attorney Matthew Rosengart says their allegations are "vague, generalised and contradictory" and that Gomez never agreed to, and did not, manage the company, or make the kind of commitments they are suggesting.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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 A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
The animal and the spiritual are not contradictories; they are the complements in the perfect character; and in the middle ages, as in all ages of genuine earnestness, they interfused and penetrated each other.
From Short Studies on Great Subjects by James Anthony Froude
The universe, said the Pythagoreans, is composed of pairs of opposites and contradictories, and the fundamental character of these opposites is that they are composed of the odd and even.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
For contradictories are positive and negative in essence and, when least ambiguously stated, also in form.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
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 Saint Thomas Aquinas
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