oxymoron

“The phrase ‘homeless veteran’ should be an American oxymoron,” the complaint said.

Has the term “Dodgers organization” become an oxymoron?

For me, the phrase “solo show” has always kind of been an oxymoron.

Until now, such a concept would have been an oxymoron, a historical phenomenon without precedent.

As oxymorons go, it’s the operatic equivalent to Noam Chomsky’s famous syntactic puzzle “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”