contradictorily
Example Sentences
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Punitive damages are meant to sting, Tobias said, so juries tend to award sums proportionate to the defendant’s finances despite many states contradictorily having caps on such awards.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2022
What is known is scantily and contradictorily documented, when not purely anecdotal.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2020
My protagonist needed to be engaged in work that is contradictorily appreciated only when it is invisible.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
Industrialization per se was not the goal, and it was to be pursued only to the extent necessary for wellbeing, though, conversely and somewhat contradictorily, the Legion insisted on development of a strong modern army.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2017
Change is the connection of determinations contradictorily opposed to each other in the existence of one and the same thing.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
