contradictoriness

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Noun
  • Organizers say the events are about more than building community; they're also meant to draw attention to disparities in access to autism services within Detroit.
    Lauren Winfrey, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Everyone outside Los Angeles blames them — nothing personal, mind you, but as a symbol of the gaping financial disparity in baseball and a trigger for the almost certain lockout to follow the World Series.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Each chapter is a head-spinning exercise in dissimilarity.
    Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Obviously, the dissimilarity between being directed by her and being technically a co-star of her is kind of getting to engage with her brilliance on multifacets.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • All of the retail would be leased to local operators, an intentional divergence from a town dotted with chain stores.
    Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2026
  • And for at least a decade, economists have documented a widening and deeply troubling divergence between those two things.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Talon leaves a mixed legacy of economic growth, a growing jihadi insurgency in the north and the suppression of opposition critics.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Péter Magyar, a former official in Orbán’s party, became an ascendant opposition candidate, drawing unprecedented crowds at rallies across the country and eventually leading in most polls.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The source of the solar activity is a negative polarity coronal hole high-speed stream -- a fast-moving stream of solar wind that escaped the sun's atmosphere -- according to NOAA.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Practically a textbook polarity zone.
    Jay Woods, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But some of the variances were relatively small, and far from evidence of excessive caution, slightly conservative forecasts like these are a best fiscal practice.
    Marc Joffe, Daily News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Regardless, Simpson is a high-variance bet with a realistic starter path if the game slows down and he’s drafted by a Kyle Shanahan or Sean McVay disciple.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • He and former Officer Solomon Omotoya were indicted in late 2025 after the City of Godley found discrepancies in its fleet fuel card purchases.
    Doug Myers, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • According to Bucherati, the investigation began when officers allegedly found discrepancies in union bank account balances.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2026
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“Contradictoriness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contradictoriness. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.

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