How to Use contradiction in a Sentence
contradiction
noun
- There have been some contradictions in his statements.
- There is a contradiction between what he said yesterday and what he said today.
- What he said yesterday is in direct contradiction to what he said today.
- Her statements are mired in contradiction.
- No one was surprised by the defendant's contradiction of the plaintiff's accusations.
- Her rebuttal contained many contradictions to my arguments.
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That cuts to the heart of one of the many contradictions in Trump’s movement.
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Bill Barrow,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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Which is just one more of the many contradictions at the heart of Freedom Bowls.
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Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
17 Feb. 2024
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The irony of this contradiction is not lost on Schinckus.
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Alexander Lee,
Discover Magazine,
9 Apr. 2022
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The contradiction led to calls for the government to extend the EPG.
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Anna Cooban,
CNN,
15 Mar. 2023
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This feels like a contradiction, and one that is very telling for me.
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New York Times,
21 June 2021
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In the 1960s, the country was living in a contradiction.
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Ali Martin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
29 Feb. 2024
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But the problem is that there is a contradiction at the heart of this crisis.
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Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes,
22 Oct. 2021
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The catch, of course, is in the PGA Tour’s ultimate contradiction.
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Theo MacKie,
The Arizona Republic,
5 Dec. 2022
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Meat can be ham, meat can be kosher, but kosher ham is a contradiction.
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Wal Van Lierop,
Forbes,
3 June 2022
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There's a humor about that; there's an irony and a contradiction about that.
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Christian Holub,
EW.com,
5 Nov. 2022
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He was said to have been troubled by the contradiction.
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Daniel Arkin,
NBC News,
28 Oct. 2022
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Despite the prince’s change of heart, the finale doesn’t quite work out that contradiction.
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Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Jan. 2025
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And that contradiction isn’t just present in projects coming out of Africa.
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Ineye Komonibo,
refinery29.com,
27 Mar. 2022
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Seif seemed not to see the contradiction between his two selves.
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New York Times,
30 July 2021
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There is, to be fair, a telling contradiction present in the scenes that played out at Old Trafford on Sunday.
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Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
3 May 2021
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The grouping will have to manage these tensions and contradictions in the years ahead.
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Alexander Gabuev,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Sep. 2024
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At the root of the contradictions are difficult choices that haven’t been made.
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Jonathan Franzen,
The New Yorker,
25 Dec. 2023
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The document is not a contradiction of faith and morals.
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Madeleine Kearns,
National Review,
24 Dec. 2023
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Add pink blooms to your Halloween wreath for an eerie contradiction between the severe black and the bright shade.
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Emily Vanschmus,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Oct. 2022
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Like most teenagers, Lux is a contradiction, at once cool and anxious.
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Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
12 Apr. 2024
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Like most teenagers, Lux is a contradiction, at once cool and anxious.
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Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2021
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How to handle the contradiction is a challenge to every one of us.
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Hua Hsu,
The New Yorker,
15 Aug. 2022
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One way to address that contradiction would be for the WHO to scale back on the number of health areas it is involved in and focus primarily on issues that actually transcend borders.
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Jess Craig,
Vox,
17 Feb. 2025
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Deep Space Nine may have a cult following among the franchise’s fans, but those who make Star Trek today seem to have learned the wrong lessons from it, gobbling up the series’ darkness but forgoing its soulfulness and wonderful contradictions.
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Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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