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Roughly 20 children testified in the abuse case, offering sometimes contradictory accounts of what happened.

We found that most people have contradictory feelings: They want to be able to use social media platforms themselves, but they would also be happy if those platforms were eliminated from their community.

As ever in politics two things that might appear to be contradictory are in fact, both true.

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He said they gave him instructions to move that were contradictory.

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His insight doesn’t come from trying to explain or simplify complex experiences but from allowing them to be as layered and contradictory as they truly are.

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