contradict

Example Sentences

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The graduate assistant grader gave the essay a zero, noting that it “contradicts itself,” “heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence,” and contains passages that are “offensive.”

From Salon

New reports contradict their accounts of what happened next.

From BBC

Now when Mr. Khamenei pronounces on critical issues, VIPs he once humbled contradict him.

From The Wall Street Journal

"This result clearly contradicts expectations based on standard cosmology and forces us to reconsider our previous assumptions."

From Science Daily

This result contradicts a scientific explanation that has shaped the understanding of the Faraday Effect since the nineteenth century.

From Science Daily