Sentence examples for exactly contradicting from inspiring English sources

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But nearly every other sentence in "Old School," like so much of Wolff's previous writing, fictional and not, tugs against that categorical assertion without exactly contradicting it.

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We can debate for a long time about the value of credit-rating-agency opinions, but the striking fact about Ms. Miller's reference to Moody's is that it exactly contradicts her on the current situation (see Moody's report).

But despite its inextricable link to licensed premises – something not exactly contradicted by the sight of the thousands of excitable spectators at Ally Pally seated at long tables groaning with alcoholic refreshment – darts is a truly demotic sport and has its adherents across all social strata.

The paradoxes of his two previous bestselling theses – Blink and Outliers – included the fact that they almost exactly contradicted each other: one was a hymn to the power of instinctive thought; the other a paean to the overwhelming importance of long and dedicated study.

Zbigniew Herbert isn't exactly a comic poet, however, so maybe I'm contradicting myself when I say that he's the first one who comes to mind as far as "influence" is concerned.

Real life, in my experience, is not rife with epiphanies, let alone lessons; what little we learn tends to come exactly too late, gets contradicted by the next blunder, or is immediately forgotten and has to be learned all over again.

Both offices seem to believe that the sweets had different flavours, despite this directly contradicting a claim in the NPR article that, "Skittles have different fragrances and different colours but they all taste exactly the same".

Without totally contradicting himself.

They're contradicting themselves".

Contradicting him is fruitless.

Contradicting an elder".

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