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

"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

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

His contemporaries are divided on the question, and his own notes are contradictory.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik