oxymoron
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That sounds like an oxymoron: We don’t tend to expect illness or old age to create a problem in our life when we are young, but preparing for such eventualities is important.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 9, 2025
But as David Nasaw’s “The Wounded Generation” makes emphatically clear, a good war is an oxymoron.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Has the term “Dodgers organization” become an oxymoron?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2024
Until now, such a concept would have been an oxymoron, a historical phenomenon without precedent.
From Salon • May 22, 2024
They themselves listened only to Greek music, an oxymoron as far as the rest of the world is concerned.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
