contradictory
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The world's largest crypto exchange by daily trading volumes posted a series of sometimes contradictory messages on X, insisting that "user funds are completely safe" but also saying it would "cover all losses".
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The holders of these outwardly contradictory perspectives are talking about two different things when they use the word “university.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
This seemingly contradictory result suggests that LPC70 may help the body use available arachidonic acid more efficiently to produce prostaglandins under high-salt conditions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
In a post on Telegram, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi acknowledged Trump's rejection, but accused the president of previously making contradictory statements.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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
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 John S. (John Stephen) Vaughan
The much-lauded Hegelian philosophy is the system of Democritus, with the addition of a little more absurdity in the assertion of the identity of contradictories.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
Did the 'law of sharing' so little legitimate their procedure that a law of identity of contradictories, forsooth, must be trumped up to give it scope?
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
I think the truth is that these two contradictories lie side by side in Parmenides unreconciled, and still mutually contradicting each other.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
Consequently mutual contradictories seem to be true as seen by different persons at the same time.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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