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contradictory

[kon-truh-dik-tuh-ree] / ˌkɒn trəˈdɪk tə ri /


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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

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

"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

The events that followed have a dreamlike quality in people’s memories, and the memories are contradictory.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The principle of the contradictoriness of identity and the identity of contradictories is the essence of the hegelian system.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

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

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)

Of two contradictories one or other must be true: we must either affirm or deny any one thing of any other: no mean or middle is possible.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

Co-ordinate Species, when positive, have the least contrariety; but there are also opposites, namely, negatives, contradictories and fuller contraries.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth




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