contradiction
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But if there’s anyone who can make contradiction look like reinvention, it’s Madonna.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Back to the recluse thing: There’s a funny contradiction in that you’re also the heartthrob in Radiohead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
This apparent contradiction became known as the black hole information paradox.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Nor are the formerly enslaved Americans who forced the nation to confront the grotesque contradiction between slavery and constitutional liberty.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Well, I was and yet I was invisible, that was the fundamental contradiction.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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"The contradictions in the literature were largely because scientists were comparing systems at different effective pressures or densities without realizing it."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
The tension in these tracks are the binding agent for Jane’s fan base — the music is full of contradictions and incompatibilities smashing together that just feel like being young right now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
By the time Prohibition was repealed in 1933, America was left not sobered, but hungover by its own contradictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Clark’s entire speech was a bundle of contradictions.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
The official ideology abounds with contradictions even where there is no practical reason for them.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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Vocabulary lists containing contradiction
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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You Can Say That Again: Dic and Dict
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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