contradiction
Example Sentences
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Through their eyes, this thoughtful and deeply humane novel exposes some of the contradictions and quiet duplicities of ordinary life.
He told us: “A field that once asked, ‘What is America?’—exploring its myths, music, monuments, and contradictions—now too often narrows its focus to a different question: ‘Whom has America silenced, failed, or harmed?’
As a magazine obsessive growing up in the heyday of print media, I always associated the new year with a publishing-world contradiction: the January issue.
From Salon
This created a puzzling contradiction between theory and physical behavior.
From Science Daily
That does, however, reveal a bit of a contradiction in Monday’s market reaction.
From Barron's
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