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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

In true Tove Lo fashion, the surrounding serene village made her turn to the familiar sounds of heavy club electronica, further building on the contradictory ethos that comprises “Estrus.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

He said the correct Fed policy decision would be to stay on hold until these contradictory signals abate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Customers complained the line from the Ayn Rand book “Atlas Shrugged,” which promotes self-interest, was contradictory to the inclusive teachings of yoga.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

There were about a dozen watches in the window, a dozen different hours and each with the same assertive and contradictory assurance that mine had, without any hands at all.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

The animal and the spiritual are not contradictories; they are the complements in the perfect character; and in the middle ages, as in all ages of genuine earnestness, they interfused and penetrated each other.

From Short Studies on Great Subjects by James Anthony Froude

Not "All S is P," not "No S is P," not "Some S is P," not "Some S is not P," are equivalent respectively to contradictories of the propositions thus negatived.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto

They constituted, so to say, the living synthesis of contradictories.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon

For contradictories are positive and negative in essence and, when least ambiguously stated, also in form.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

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