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These contradictory impressions persist in the new production of “Waiting in the Wings,” running in repertory at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum through Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

"Markets are once again being forced to trade two seemingly contradictory stories on the same screen," said Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

The researchers say these seemingly contradictory cosmological puzzles may actually point toward the same conclusion.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

Each of these firings would be litigated, and the results are likely to be contradictory and confusing.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Adding infinite things to each other can yield bizarre and contradictory results.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

Hegelianism was, in principle, the identity of contradictories, the identity of truth and error, of good and evil.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham

On the contrary, it is impossible for the same thing to be in motion and at rest, else contradictories would be verified of the same subject.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas

For it would follow that contradictories can exist at the one time: for the "definition of a thing is what its name expresses," as is said in Metaph. iv.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas

All high truth is the union of two contradictories.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald