contradiction

Example Sentences

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The study also resolves a long-standing contradiction about the SMC's gas.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2026

Steven J. Lockjaw, a military officer obsessed with Taylor’s revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills, overtly embodies this contradiction.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

Jean doesn’t try to explain away the contradiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

In my view, there’s no contradiction because wearing ashes in public, unlike righteous acts of giving alms, fasting and praying in public, is a sign that we are sinners and in need of repentance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

He protested to himself in contradiction: it is not fair to put it like that, as if Mordred or I were the movers of the storm.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White