contradictory

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“This dynamic explains the seemingly contradictory combination of weak income growth, a falling savings rate, and resilient spending. It is a natural development of the aging U.S. population,” Yardeni notes.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

When challenged about its apparent contradictory position to diplomacy when applied to its own conflicts, Pakistan has said that it tried years of talks that did not yield the security it needed.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

"A lot of the studies on this explosion provide different, and sometimes contradictory, explanations. It's still early in our understanding of what really happened."

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

As Simon Elliott describes in his biography “The African Emperor,” Severus was a mercurial and contradictory character, capable by turns of savagery, cunning, wit and generosity, and always blessed with a sense of the theatrical.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

"By what logic do you accept the shooter's narrative without investigation, especially when there are so many contradictory reports? Why can they take Jack Franklin's word, but not the word of anyone else present?"

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon