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self-contradictory



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It’s fuzzy-edged, nuanced, self-contradictory, and its pluralistic approach to the East has both a historical and a contemporary vocation.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2024

"If North Korea ever invades the South again, it will be self-contradictory, where a U.N. member state would be attacking the U.N. Command," Shin told the meeting.

From Reuters • Nov. 14, 2023

His decision is self-contradictory: Pittman found that the plaintiffs had standing because they could not provide public comments on student debt relief—then ruled that the administration was not required to allow public comments.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2022

The lies are so silly and often so self-contradictory — and the people disseminating so obviously evil — that these texts just feel like confirming what we already knew.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2022

I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison




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