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The sheer reach of the Cyclospora parasite indicates other contributors at play, and despite expert recommendations to the contrary, it’s already fomenting a mild panic over produce.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

But in June of last year, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to the contrary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

"The judge made an express finding to the contrary," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

The news, on the contrary, helps prove that we can’t.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

She scoured the room, her tiny claws clacking across the floor—which, contrary to the clacking, looked like undulating water beneath her feet.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

We grow up to discover there are names in every culture for that — yin and yang, the Apollonian and Dionysian, Vishnu and Shiva, thesis and antithesis, the law of contraries, the dialectic.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Art is made of contraries, of ambivalence and ambiguity; it never wants us to feel a single thing.

From The Guardian ● May 8, 2020

She revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries in which “we hold still for the camera, believing/ it will shore up time, knowing it won’t.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2016

“The knowledge of contraries is one and the same,” as Aristotle said.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2014

It is an alliance of the contraries which seems absurd to many Frenchmen, but is often found in English statesmen, and is probably more common in America than in any other nation.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert