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Many companies appear to have received tariff refunds with remarkable speed, contrary to warnings that the process could prove slow and messy, the WSJ’s Theo Francis and Celia Bernhardt write.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

After a brief interrogation, and contrary to Dan’s previous claims, Bill admitted involvement with the superstore.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Despite social media evidence to the contrary, Painter pleads he is "not always the culprit" when it comes to the pouring of ice buckets.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

“As a referee — contrary to what many people might think — you detach yourself from many situations, from the noise, from the pressure,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

On the contrary, her face is divided into two parts, one with a somber expression, the other with a masklike appearance whose color nevertheless betrays passionate feeling.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

We grow up to discover there are names in every culture for that — yin and yang, the Apollonian and Dionysian, Vishnu and Shiva, thesis and antithesis, the law of contraries, the dialectic.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Art is made of contraries, of ambivalence and ambiguity; it never wants us to feel a single thing.

From The Guardian ● May 8, 2020

She revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries in which “we hold still for the camera, believing/ it will shore up time, knowing it won’t.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2016

“The knowledge of contraries is one and the same,” as Aristotle said.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2014

Yet qualities of this sort admit of degrees on the part of their subjects with which they are connected, according as in their subjects more or less of their contraries is mingled.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church