contradictory
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These contradictory impressions persist in the new production of “Waiting in the Wings,” running in repertory at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum through Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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
Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings.
From "1984" by George Orwell
On another construction of it, one which sought to escape the dilemma of the contradictories by confining them to matters of the understanding, Hegel and Schelling believed they had gained the open field.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton
All high truth is the union of two contradictories.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
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
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 B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
Its mathematical expres ion shows that it does not relate to contradictories.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton
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