contradictory
Example Sentences
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But it presented me with a unique research problem, for no anecdote from PARC’s rich history is burdened by so much contradictory testimony.
From Los Angeles Times
As Simon Elliott describes in his biography “The African Emperor,” Severus was a mercurial and contradictory character, capable by turns of savagery, cunning, wit and generosity, and always blessed with a sense of the theatrical.
Sondheim’s were instead tamed by his art, Okrent suggests, which shaped his “textured, contradictory, troubling, and gratifying life.”
From Los Angeles Times
But this time round in the US, there has been no attempt to publicly resolve the sometimes contradictory desires to take action.
From BBC
But some traders may have missed a contradictory message when the president endorsed the comments of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said that the battle is just beginning.
From MarketWatch
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