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contradiction

[kon-truh-dik-shuhn] / ˌkɒn trəˈdɪk ʃən /


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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

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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