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
I have come to learn that for many Maltese people, those two sentences are not contradictory.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026
I saw how complicated and contradictory they could be.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 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
So, for Aristotle, all space is finite, all space is place, and the idea of an infinite extension is conceptually contradictory, just like the idea of a vacuum.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing contradictory
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 2
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Opposites Attract
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