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contradictory

[kon-truh-dik-tuh-ree] / ˌkɒn trəˈdɪk tə ri /


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Gomez's attorney Matthew Rosengart says their allegations are "vague, generalised and contradictory" and that Gomez never agreed to, and did not, manage the company, or make the kind of commitments they are suggesting.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

The minutes of the July meeting show that he may have got what he wanted, with a wide variety of sometimes contradictory views recorded.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

With nutrition trends constantly changing and dietary advice sometimes appearing contradictory, Anderson offers a simple message: "Keep it simple, eat a variety of foods and not too much of anything."

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

These contradictory impressions persist in the new production of “Waiting in the Wings,” running in repertory at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum through Oct.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Ortiz went to see the piece and was taken aback; it was, to his mind, clearly a fake, full of contradictory and slipshod elements.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

It was in view of such perplexities as these that Aristotle set forth the true contradictories of his four Modals.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto

Reformation and revolution are "contraries" though not perhaps "contradictories."

From Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War by Sir Alfred Hopkinson

They are contradictories, that is, one must be, to the exclusion of the other.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones

On the contrary, it is impossible for the same thing to be in motion and at rest, else contradictories would be verified of the same subject.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Of two contradictories one or other must be true: we must either affirm or deny any one thing of any other: no mean or middle is possible.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto




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