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as in paradoxes
someone or something with qualities or features that seem to conflict with one another
a loving father as well as a ruthless killer, the gangster is a living contradiction
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as in denials
a refusal to confirm the truth of a statement
the actress's contradiction of the marriage rumor caused quite a stir
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Recent Examples of contradictions
But his seeming contradictions are getting harder to ignore as scrutiny of OpenAI intensifies amid growing government reliance on its models and lawsuits that label its tech as unsafe.
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Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 6 Apr. 2026
The Broadway team may have hoped to heighten the contradictions further, by focussing more tightly on New York oddballs under pressure.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
To find out more, Newsweek spoke with Pixile Studios co-founder Michael One and narrative designer Ruben, about designing a battle royale in this distinct format, building a global live service as a small indie team, and how cuteness and bleakness are not contradictions.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
Students should be encouraged to think historically, Zavala said, and to approach larger themes of colonization, erasure, power and to reflect on the way movements are shaped and the contradictions that occur within them.
—Kristy Hutchings, Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
Miguel Díaz-Canel, the puppet president Raúl Castro appointed, has been left to manage the contradictions.
—Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
His appetite for complexity was increasingly indulged as a means of branding cities and institutions, and his novel forms were deployed as blunt metaphors to absorb and obscure contradictions rather than negotiate them in material and spatial terms.
—Julian Rose, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, her longtime producer, John Parrish, weaves a wicker basket of folk rock that, despite its apparent simplicity, feels—maybe for the first time—capacious enough to hold all of Harding’s contradictions.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 Mar. 2026
Even among some Republicans, the contradictions triggered rare public skepticism.
—Nicholas Riccardi, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 6 Apr. 2026
The Broadway team may have hoped to heighten the contradictions further, by focussing more tightly on New York oddballs under pressure.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
To find out more, Newsweek spoke with Pixile Studios co-founder Michael One and narrative designer Ruben, about designing a battle royale in this distinct format, building a global live service as a small indie team, and how cuteness and bleakness are not contradictions.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
Students should be encouraged to think historically, Zavala said, and to approach larger themes of colonization, erasure, power and to reflect on the way movements are shaped and the contradictions that occur within them.
—Kristy Hutchings, Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
Miguel Díaz-Canel, the puppet president Raúl Castro appointed, has been left to manage the contradictions.
—Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
His appetite for complexity was increasingly indulged as a means of branding cities and institutions, and his novel forms were deployed as blunt metaphors to absorb and obscure contradictions rather than negotiate them in material and spatial terms.
—Julian Rose, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, her longtime producer, John Parrish, weaves a wicker basket of folk rock that, despite its apparent simplicity, feels—maybe for the first time—capacious enough to hold all of Harding’s contradictions.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 Mar. 2026
Even among some Republicans, the contradictions triggered rare public skepticism.
—Nicholas Riccardi, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contradictions
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The only problem is, negotiating and understanding the subsequent paradoxes — which writer/director Shane Carruth made little effort to simplify — requires a PhD in high-level physics.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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These paradoxes have defined—or plagued—the theory since its inception more than a century ago.—
Tim Folger,
Scientific American,
16 Mar. 2026
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About 15 requests for assistance from others states and tribes for extreme weather events this year and last seem to be pending, along with three appeals of previous denials.—
Gabriela Aoun Angueira,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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Correspondent Susan Spencer looks at how a form of insurance against health care denials may benefit consumers.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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As GLP-1s become more ubiquitous, leading many to scramble after insurance rejections, both manufacturers are looking to draw in more customers who either prefer to avoid a needle or were unable to swing the out-of-pocket price.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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The family has had three rejections so far.—
Morgan Rynor,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Contradictions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contradictions. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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