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Although many fathers in the study died from preventable causes, researchers also uncovered a seemingly contradictory finding.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

In true Tove Lo fashion, the surrounding serene village made her turn to the familiar sounds of heavy club electronica, further building on the contradictory ethos that comprises “Estrus.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

But Oman hasn’t confirmed a deal, and Iranian officials have offered contradictory statements on what it entails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Gomez's attorney Matthew Rosengart says their allegations are "vague, generalised and contradictory" and that Gomez never agreed to, and did not, manage the company, or make the kind of commitments they are suggesting.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

I smiled at the thought of anyone trying to dowse for me now, trying to make sense of the dozens of contradictory signals as the leaves swirled and spun in a dozen different directions.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The animal and the spiritual are not contradictories; they are the complements in the perfect character; and in the middle ages, as in all ages of genuine earnestness, they interfused and penetrated each other.

From Short Studies on Great Subjects by James Anthony Froude

Co-ordinate Species, when positive, have the least contrariety; but there are also opposites, namely, negatives, contradictories and fuller contraries.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

They are contradictories, that is, one must be, to the exclusion of the other.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones

Not by reason, for two contradictories in the same subject are impossible.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

This is the famous “Law of the contradictories and excluded middle,” on the construction of which the whole fabric of religious dogma, and I may add of the higher metaphysics, must depend.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton