contradictory
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Political experts argue that messages that seem contradictory to a candidate’s background, as well as drowning voters with incessant ads, can be jarring and off-putting to the electorate.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Sheinbaum said Mexico's respective trade agreements with the EU and the US were "not contradictory."
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
Agents surrounded her car and gave her contradictory instructions.
From Slate • May 19, 2026
The trend is also fueled by a contradictory pairing: families’ fierce desire to protect their babies and a cascade of false information infused into their social media algorithms.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Vocabulary lists containing contradictory
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 2
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