contradiction
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Tim Higgins examines the contradiction at the heart of one of the world’s leading AI companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
If that seems like an impossible contradiction, welcome to the mid-2020s, where reality seems increasingly like dystopian science fiction mixed with an especially opaque John le Carré spy thriller.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
That contradiction is at the heart of the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
But lawyers for the families of the victims said the Government's attempt to withhold the information, through a Public Interest Immunity application, was in "contradiction" to statements made after the attack.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The lighthearted ironies she might have deployed among her friends deserted her in his presence, and she heard her own voice become thin when she attempted some docile contradiction.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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If your profile says you studied computer science in one place and art history in another, that inconsistency stands out, and these models are good at catching contradictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Whatever happens, the contradictions in the Vance household aren’t going away.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
But it turned out to be a weak case, one that falls apart under the weight of its own contradictions, omissions, and leaps of illogic.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
The tensions of keeping the industry of Hollywood at arm’s length while warmly embracing all the contradictions of the city of Los Angeles have long animated him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The gene, Schrödinger posited, had to be made of a peculiar kind of chemical; it had to be a molecule of contradictions.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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