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oxymoron

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Her own lawyer has called her a high-functioning conservatee, which conservatorship experts have noted is an oxymoron in the conservatorship system.

The very notion that we should have come together was an oxymoron.

Before you protest that the phrase is an oxymoron, remember that we’re in the midst of a pandemic whose scope we couldn’t have imagined a little over a year ago.

From Time

Among scientists, scientific certainty is an oxymoron and the bar for even approaching certainty is extremely high.

Being a progressive safety first marketer shouldn’t be an oxymoron in the current climate — but it is.

From Digiday

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to oxymoron, such as: adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, and analogy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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