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Clinton appeared to contradict herself at one point, admitting that some 30,000 emails from her tenure at Foggy Bottom that she had deemed personal no longer existed.
Ebert was conflicted – it offended him to preface his article with such a warning, not least because the NSFW label was, as he put it, an "unsightly typographical offence", but mostly because it "would contradict the point I was making", namely that he was opposed to American puritanism, preferring Europe's supposed festive nudearama.
However, David Cameron's official spokesman appeared to contradict the idea that screening was not compulsory when pressed on whether the system was doing enough to catch passengers who are potentially at risk of the virus.
My CV is tailored to contradict the stereotypes associated with obesity.
It appeared to contradict the BBC's own editorial guidelines which were coincidentally read out on BBC1's Question Time, which followed the news.
Lucy Burns, chief investigator for the studies and UNSW associate professor, told Guardian Australia her team's research did not contradict the AIHW data but painted a different picture based on market changes seen by current drug users.
At this level, it's a poised graphic object, but its eccentric repertoire of figurative imagery – mythical monsters, dismembered limbs, bugs and gargoyles – and its frantic, deranged textual contents violently contradict its formal elegance.
Possible originators include Disraeli ("Never complain and never explain"), Benjamin Jowett ("Never regret, never explain, never apologise"), and Admiral Jacky Fisher ("Never contradict . Never explain. Never apologise").
Court papers further contradict information given in April about the men who were convicted, neither of whom were thought at the time to be the actual culprits of the attempted murder.
"The big bang, which is today posited as the origin of the world, does not contradict the divine act of creation; rather, it requires it," the pope said in an address to a meeting at the pontifical academy of sciences.
First-hand accounts are blurred by the passing of time, memory itself becomes a form of embellishment, and witnesses and official accounts contradict each other.
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The verb "contradict" primarily functions to assert opposition or inconsistency between two or more statements, ideas, or pieces of evidence . Ludwig AI validates this through numerous examples demonstrating this function.
Expression frequency: Very common
