oxymoron
Example Sentences
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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
For me, the phrase “solo show” has always kind of been an oxymoron.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
Until now, such a concept would have been an oxymoron, a historical phenomenon without precedent.
From Salon • May 22, 2024
When it hit me that act naturally was an oxymoron, I snorted.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
