contradiction
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But Hynes doesn't see a contradiction between reducing taxpayer subsidy and making train services better.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
On climate change, the contradiction is even starker.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026
I’ve watched the same contradiction in philanthropy for 26 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
That contradiction is at the heart of the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Washington’s presidency had become trapped within that contradiction.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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It didn’t hurt that Smith gave the performance of a lifetime, putting her heart and soul into the melodramatic contradictions of the character, antagonizing Arnold one second and swooning over him the next.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Both men deny intentionally ever taking performance-enhancing drugs, but away from that issue their showdown is wrapped in the contradictions that define modern boxing.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Whatever happens, the contradictions in the Vance household aren’t going away.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
It offers a somewhat surreal vision of the Western U.S. and the many contradictions it contains—fame and loneliness, rural and urban, traditional and contemporary—in a sumptuous if disjointed collage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Each story Werner hears contains its own flaws and contradictions, as though the truth is a machine whose gears are not meshing.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Vocabulary lists containing contradiction
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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You Can Say That Again: Dic and Dict
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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