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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
This project became both an ethnographic and photographic study of how women inhabit, resist, and reimagine their roles in a context denned by deep contradictions – beauty and chaos, devotion and repression, tradition and transformation.
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Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, the American pantry is a fast-changing jumble of contradictions and politics.
—Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
At the same time, along with the advantages of implementing such a useful tool, a number of contradictions arise.
—Olena Orliuk, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Few fruits carry as many contradictions as the Punica granatum, better known as the pomegranate.
—Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Toews has long plumbed the calamities and contradictions of her biography in her fiction.
—Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2025
Three Dots and a Dash was a revelation, the first of its kind anywhere, an assembly of delicious contradictions.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2025
As the container of our culture’s internal contradictions, including dogmatism and pragmatism, individualism and communitarianism, and Biercean indignation and Emersonian transcendence, hardcore is as American as atomic warfare.
—Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
And its author has become the namesake of this phenomenon of apparent contradictions.
—Noah Lyons, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, the American pantry is a fast-changing jumble of contradictions and politics.
—Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
At the same time, along with the advantages of implementing such a useful tool, a number of contradictions arise.
—Olena Orliuk, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Few fruits carry as many contradictions as the Punica granatum, better known as the pomegranate.
—Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Toews has long plumbed the calamities and contradictions of her biography in her fiction.
—Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2025
Three Dots and a Dash was a revelation, the first of its kind anywhere, an assembly of delicious contradictions.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2025
As the container of our culture’s internal contradictions, including dogmatism and pragmatism, individualism and communitarianism, and Biercean indignation and Emersonian transcendence, hardcore is as American as atomic warfare.
—Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
And its author has become the namesake of this phenomenon of apparent contradictions.
—Noah Lyons, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contradictions
Noun
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Sunstein warns against paradoxes, where well-meaning but rigid rules lead to enforcement paralysis.—
Paulo Carvão,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Through awe-inspiring visuals and a narration from the filmmaker combining poetry, science and emotions, the film explores the paradoxes of our time.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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Her plaintive denials on screen are robbed of any credibility by an inescapable sense of overwhelming resentment.—
Daniel Jonah Wolpert,
NPR,
8 Sep. 2025
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Sometimes, when patients and doctors shame insurers online, denials get overturned.—
Lauren Sausser,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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But despite two rejections from Julie, Todd persisted.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Musleh has gone through the rejections trying to find a pattern, and found that doctors who had previously served on missions in Gaza were more likely to be rejected than first-timers.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Contradictions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contradictions. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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