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The phrase "contradictory purpose" is correct and usable in written English.
It means that something has a goal or intention that conflicts with another goal or intention. Example: The company's new policy had a contradictory purpose, as it claimed to improve employee morale while also cutting their benefits.
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To kill God and to build a church are the constant and contradictory purpose of rebellion" (R, 103).
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When Peter the Great built his city 300 years ago, he had two somewhat contradictory purposes in mind.
But they are also linked in a system that serves a lot of different, sometimes contradictory purposes.
In a series of dialogues in Casanova's hotel room, the Duke and the Duchess attempt to determine the meaning of that duel, to contradictory purposes.
Altham also talks about Hendrix "saying nothing to reporters, or contradictory things, on purpose.
This can be contradictory to the purpose of using LCA to reduce overall environmental impacts, because food generally has a higher environmental impact than the packaging system.
This study excluded the 1st premolar case, which is distant from the maxillary sinus and usually with sufficient bone volume for implantation, as it might be contradictory to the purpose of this study.
Furthermore, since inspection of the mesh during paused state was contradictory to the purpose of the experiment, two different displays were used and the evaluation of the mesh was conducted on one of the screens while the animation is ongoing on the other screen.
This pattern was similar for many of the genes uniquely identified by COPA, contradictory to its purpose of identifying outliers.
Note that the references are not comprehensive and omit most of the contradictory literature; the purpose was to look for evidence of microbial presence specifically in the autoimmune target tissues.
However, our results seem counterintuitive because dNTP pool levels actually decreased, which is contradictory to the recycling purpose.
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