contradictory
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For Edelberg, however, a decision to hold after raising rates in September would potentially be contradictory, given the labor market -- the Fed's other mandate -- has been largely stable.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
After all, it was widely viewed as contradictory of the group, which has been vehemently outspoken on various contemporary issues, including what the U.N.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
This seemingly contradictory result suggests that LPC70 may help the body use available arachidonic acid more efficiently to produce prostaglandins under high-salt conditions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Bergman notes Alma’s alternating, often contradictory attitudes toward Elisabet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Instead of reconciling these contradictory observations, he had laid the issue before his colleagues.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Consequently mutual contradictories seem to be true as seen by different persons at the same time.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Both the above theses are false; yet Free Will and Determinism are both true, and in a completely known universe would cease to be contradictories.
From Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' by Sir Oliver Lodge
Hegelianism was, in principle, the identity of contradictories, the identity of truth and error, of good and evil.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
This necessity of accepting one of two contradictories is wholly based upon the supposed impossibility of a mean; if the mean exists, that may be true, and both the contradictories false.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
This necessity of accepting one of the contradictories is wholly based upon the supposed impossibility of a mean; if a mean exists, that may be true, and both contradictories together false.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
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