contradiction

Example Sentences

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To explore this contradiction, researchers analyzed 196 overnight recordings from 44 healthy adults.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

He is no stranger to controversy, or contradiction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Steven J. Lockjaw, a military officer obsessed with Taylor’s revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills, overtly embodies this contradiction.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

Jean doesn’t try to explain away the contradiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

What seemed perfectly normal to white Birmingham residents proved a genuine contradiction of our nation’s democratic ideals to outsiders such as Salisbury.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry