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Punitive damages are meant to sting, Tobias said, so juries tend to award sums proportionate to the defendant’s finances despite many states contradictorily having caps on such awards.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2022

My protagonist needed to be engaged in work that is contradictorily appreciated only when it is invisible.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020

“I never wanted the attention,” she said, somewhat contradictorily.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2018

Lawson says he doesn't want to actually write screenplays; the man whose work seems to come from the same DNA wants, somewhat contradictorily, little to do with its bloodline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2016

Alwin, with his short hair and his contradictorily rich dress, was stared at in outspoken curiosity.

From The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz


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