contradict

Example Sentences

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This would appear to contradict directly the statements made during a cabinet meeting held Thursday in which Bessent said “the U.S. oil market is well-supplied.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

Owens is maximalist in her approach, tossing out anything that to her seems funky or confusing or too coincidental, even when they lead to theories that contradict one another.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

"This decision is disappointing to me because it seems to contradict the spirit of the Games," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

But internal Meta documents introduced about an hour later seemed to contradict both those claims.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Though I doubted much that lovers’ behavior had changed so much in forty years, I did not contradict Elnora.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein