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• I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.From the entry baffle
• His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results.From the entry flat
• "A miniature giant" is a contradiction in terms.From the entry contradiction in terms
• To speak of air having weight was a contradiction of the principle that air was naturally levitative and upward-tending.From the entry levitative
• A comforting anchor, Samuel was a contradiction to the frightening events portrayed.2017, Daniel I. Russell, Entertaining Demons. From the entry spectrology
• The Devil, even in defeat, stays faithful to himself and to his own contradiction.2013, Arturo Fontaine, La Vida Doble. From the entry Christianoid
• The contradictions of recent sitcoms can be traced to the contradictions of TV paedocracy.2012, Doyle Greene, Teens, TV and Tunes: The Manufacturing of American Adolescent Culture. From the entry paedocracy
• I think the Tea Partiers, despite their contradictions, are not all wrong about Big Government.2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “The Deepest Dangers Facing the United States [print version: Why It’s Time to Worry]”, in Newsweek, New…. From the entry fearmonger
• Because it reflects the matriarchy-patriarchy contradiction after the first form recognized by Bachofen, promiscuity.2010 November 2, Cameroun Douala, “The Cultural Unity of Black Africa?”, in Real News Network. From the entry mama's baby, papa's maybe
• Despite some contradictions found in the essay, its major emphasis is laid on the politics-administration dichotomy theory.2005, S. P. Naidu, Public Administration: Concepts And Theories, page 55. From the entry dichotomy
• Fans talk of retcon—retroactive continuity—giving information that explains an earlier event, especially seeming plot contradictions or lacunae.2005, Rhonda Wilcox, Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 9. From the entry retcon
• Similarly, a campaign for cyberrights must also recognize the economic contradictions within hypermedia freedom.2001, Peter Ludlow, Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, page 57. From the entry cyberrights
• But a private language—one that is spoken and understood by only one person—is a contradiction in terms.1996 May 4, Peter Mullen, “'I' is a tyrant. You are what you eat”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 29 Apr 2014. From the entry private language
• All of the contradictions and alogisms in Schopenhauer's philosophy can be reduced to this basic misunderstanding.1996, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, The Crisis of Western Philosophy: Against the Positivists, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry alogism
• The poet is caught in the contradiction of this Janus word.1994, Nancy Dena Goldfarb, The poetics of drowning, page 37. From the entry Janus word
• The four corypheuses are infallible; any contradiction between them is wholly out of the question.1953, Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, page 443. From the entry corypheus
• The conservative movement faces real internal contradictions.2025 February 26, Aziz Huq, “Conservatives on the Supreme Court May Not Fully Align With Trump”, in Politico. From the entry muscular
• That apparent self-defeating contradiction is not a Sisyphean exercise in futility devised as a cruel philosophical joke by nihilistic engineers.2020 September 7, Adam Ragusea, 0:14 from the start, in How refrigerators work, and how we all ended up with one, Macon, archived from the…. From the entry sisyphean
• Gradually, there was born an audience that preferred simple, ahistorical, and decontextualized narratives to socio-historical complexities and contradictions.2019 June 27, Rasoul Mohsenzadeh, Mohammad Mostafavi Rad, “Dynamic History of Iranian Book Publishing in Political and Social Settings”…. From the entry decontextualize
• But there is no contradiction between the populist right’s Christianism and its secularism, since both derive from a preoccupation with Islam.2017 December 6, Rogers Brubaker, “The New Language of European Populism”, in brubaker.scholar.ss.ucla.edu, page 4. From the entry preoccupation
• The contradictions were more confusing than a Rubik's Cube.2015 September, Cynthia Reese, Anna Adams, Cerella Sechrist, Loree Lough, Harlequin Heartwarming September 2015 Box Set, →ISBN. From the entry more confusing than a Rubik's Cube
• Such a contradiction is at the very core of both the difficulties and the dynamism of the Basque Country.2007, William A. Douglass, Joseba Zulaika, Basque culture: anthropological perspectives. From the entry Bilbaoan
• Class contradictions in the U.S., in time, came to be defined largely in the context of race and settlerism.2004, Michael Zweig, What's Class Got to Do with It?, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry settlerism
• Capitalism would self-destruct, due to its inner contradictions, and the increasingly immiserated workers would have no choice but to overthrow it.2001, Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press, page 167. From the entry immiserated
• This is the fifth commandment, and it has made the Church a sign of contradiction in our time.2001, Charles J. Chaput, Living the Catholic Faith: Rediscovering the Basics, page 102. From the entry sign of contradiction
• Unlike Marx's bourgeoisie, the virtual class experiences huge contradictions.1996 February, Jean-Hugues Roy, quoting Arthur Kroker, “Way New Leftists”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry virtual class
• This information may explain many of the apparent contradictions in published data on gastric emptying in the perianaesthetic period.1993, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. From the entry perianaesthetic
• There is a new contradiction inside the gay community, which is that it's becoming more 'modalized', to use a technical term.1974 February 2, John Collis, Guy Hocquenghem, Joe Interrante, Mike Riegle, Charley Shively, Raphael Shively, Lionel Soukaz, “The…. From the entry modalize
• What we need as a metaphysic and what the logical realists are at least glimpsing, is the principle of contradiction.1927, Charles M. Perry, “A Principle for Realism”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 24, number 20, page 537. From the entry metaphysic
• The extension of such a rigid word as morality, until it includes its own contradictions, is typically Wellsean.1916, John Freeman, “H. G. Wells”, in The Moderns, page 93. From the entry Wellsean
• And, contradiction, like a discord breaking on the ear, Wilt intertrude its hateful presence, hoot, deny and jeer.1912, Seymour Supercern, Truth Will Out: An Emergence from Chaos and Subterfuge Into Light and Reality. From the entry intertrude
• There is a fundamental contradiction here.2021 June 7, Nylah Burton, “Harry and Meghan’s baby name proves they’re not the heroes you thought they were. And that’s OK”, in The…. From the entry math
• Most counties have strong carrying capacity, and there was a local contradiction between supply and demand in Luzhou District and Shangdang District.2021, Fucui Li, Kai Niu, “Evaluation of water resources carrying capacity in Changzhi City Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process”, in Earth…. From the entry Shangdang
• Doesn't this misplacement rule out the character of difference; doesn't it relocate the place of contradiction and by consequence rule out the interlegibility of reality?2018, John Baldacchino, Post-Marxist Marxism: Questioning the Answer. From the entry interlegibility
• Temporal contradiction defines Odetta Hartman’s sound.2018 August 18, Phil Mongredien, “One to watch: Odetta Hartman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media…. From the entry Odetta
• “Invisible light” seems like a contradiction.2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 8-9. From the entry light

Meaning of contradiction

1. noun The act of contradicting.
2. noun A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
3. noun A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.

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Questions about contradiction in a sentence

How do you use contradiction in a sentence?

Contradiction is used as a noun. For example: “His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.”

What is a short sentence with contradiction?

“Temporal contradiction defines Odetta Hartman’s sound.”

What does contradiction mean?

Contradiction means the act of contradicting.