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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

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

“These books probably have a purpose that will be totally contradictory to the longevity of my business,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

The minutes of the July meeting show that he may have got what he wanted, with a wide variety of sometimes contradictory views recorded.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

I didn’t answer, as a yes would have been insulting, a no contradictory.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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, interfused and penetrated each other.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Hilaire Belloc

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 William Minto

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

But we cannot, even in thought, unite such contradictories, such discordant elements; any more than we can reduce the strident sounds of a multitude of cacophonous instruments to one harmonious and beautiful melody.

From The Purpose of the Papacy by John S. (John Stephen) Vaughan

Both the above theses are false; yet Free Will and Determinism are both true, and in a completely known universe would cease to be contradictories.

From Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' by Sir Oliver Lodge