contradiction
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To investigate this apparent contradiction, the research team tested 12 different diets in mice.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Indeed, the world now faces another apparent contradiction, or at least a historical irony.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
Although Princess Anne observed that the term "fun run" was a contradiction in terms.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The contradiction of “Abrázame” is that everyone kept telling me that it should continue going up and explode at the end, but I had already overused that device on “Epistolares.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Mami's tone of voice did not invite contradiction.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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The patchwork of ancient material is complicated by contradictions, gaps and overlaps, leaving what the Sicilian historian Diodorus could describe in the first century B.C. as a “variegated and inconsistent account of Medea.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
These contradictions have led researchers to different conclusions about how ancient species behaved.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
It didn’t hurt that Smith gave the performance of a lifetime, putting her heart and soul into the melodramatic contradictions of the character, antagonizing Arnold one second and swooning over him the next.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Both men deny intentionally ever taking performance-enhancing drugs, but away from that issue their showdown is wrapped in the contradictions that define modern boxing.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Nevertheless, with one of those startling contradictions so common in mythology, she kept the Greek Fleet from sailing to Troy until they sacrificed a maiden to her.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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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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