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Although many fathers in the study died from preventable causes, researchers also uncovered a seemingly contradictory finding.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

In true Tove Lo fashion, the surrounding serene village made her turn to the familiar sounds of heavy club electronica, further building on the contradictory ethos that comprises “Estrus.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

To return to my original premise, several apparently contradictory things can be true at once.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

But Oman hasn’t confirmed a deal, and Iranian officials have offered contradictory statements on what it entails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

I didn’t answer, as a yes would have been insulting, a no contradictory.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

For it would follow that contradictories can exist at the one time: for the "definition of a thing is what its name expresses," as is said in Metaph. iv.

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

The distinction between Positive and Negative terms is not of much value in Logic, what importance would else attach to it being absorbed by the more definite distinction of contradictories.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

But it is impossible for the definition to be separated from the thing defined, since this would mean that contradictories exist together.

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

This is the famous “Law of the contradictories and excluded middle,” on the construction of which the whole fabric of religious dogma, and I may add of the higher metaphysics, must depend.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton