contradiction
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The revised timeline resolves the apparent contradiction and places the incident during an important period in technological history, when electrical communication systems were becoming increasingly widespread.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
That contradiction sits at the heart of the Bari Weiss experiment.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
The contradiction of “Abrázame” is that everyone kept telling me that it should continue going up and explode at the end, but I had already overused that device on “Epistolares.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
China's leader Xi Jinping has acknowledged it too: he said the "principal contradiction" was "between the people's ever-growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development".
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
“It is a contradiction I delight in,” I said.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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A woman of frenetic energy who lived in a world of myriad contradictions, Huerta was one of the only women in many board rooms and union halls full of men.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
These contradictions have led researchers to different conclusions about how ancient species behaved.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Therefore, it is up to us to do the internal work of untangling these contradictions.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Both men deny intentionally ever taking performance-enhancing drugs, but away from that issue their showdown is wrapped in the contradictions that define modern boxing.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
In White’s desperation to get Hale, he’d committed the ultimate sin of an evidence man and believed, despite apparent contradictions, what he wanted to believe.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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You Can Say That Again: Dic and Dict
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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