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The researchers say these seemingly contradictory cosmological puzzles may actually point toward the same conclusion.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

Because when it comes to Madonna, nothing can compare to the unvarnished, utterly contradictory artist herself.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Each of these firings would be litigated, and the results are likely to be contradictory and confusing.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

We will always contradict ourselves—and will do so in contradictory ways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Adding infinite things to each other can yield bizarre and contradictory results.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

On another construction of it, one which sought to escape the dilemma of the contradictories by confining them to matters of the understanding, Hegel and Schelling believed they had gained the open field.

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

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 Minto, William

The universe, said the Pythagoreans, is composed of pairs of opposites and contradictories, and the fundamental character of these opposites is that they are composed of the odd and even.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

Now the assertion that of such contradictories 'the negative is only an abstraction of the other'—'is nothing else than its negation'—is not true.

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

But we cannot, even in thought, unite such contradictories, such discordant elements; any more than we can reduce the strident sounds of a multitude of cacophonous instruments to one harmonious and beautiful melody.

From The Purpose of the Papacy by Vaughan, John S. (John Stephen)