contradiction
Example Sentences
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The study also resolves a long-standing contradiction about the SMC's gas.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2026
Steven J. Lockjaw, a military officer obsessed with Taylor’s revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills, overtly embodies this contradiction.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026
Jean doesn’t try to explain away the contradiction.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
That’s the operating contradiction at FDA, after the agency this month rejected two rare disease drugs seeking accelerated approval.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
The contradiction with the ideals of the American Revolution was part of it; some slaveholders freed their enslaved people afterward.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Vocabulary lists containing contradiction
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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You Can Say That Again: Dic and Dict
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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