contradictory
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The legacy of those words, and of the moon missions, is as contradictory and vexing as the times in which we live.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Creating a more durable ceasefire will require some kind of agreement to at least keep talking about the two sides' contradictory lists of intractable issues.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 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
Sondheim’s were instead tamed by his art, Okrent suggests, which shaped his “textured, contradictory, troubling, and gratifying life.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
As for the boom, it had become a faraway blur, a kind of confused, powerful, contradictory dream that made some people chuckle and others wince in the retelling of it.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
Vocabulary lists containing contradictory
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 2
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