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The phrase "flagrant contradiction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation in which two opposing ideas or statements are presented in an unmistakable, blatant manner. For example, "The politician's claims show a flagrant contradiction with his past statements on the same topic."
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Does that not already contain a flagrant contradiction?
"There is a flagrant contradiction," Mr. Neptune said in a telephone interview from a secret hideout.
Perhaps it was the misleading name: Civil War, a flagrant contradiction.
Yet such flagrant contradiction has become the basis of so much reality TV that you have to make a conscious effort to remind yourself of its inherent absurdity.
He said the following, in flagrant contradiction of everything that had been happening within the party, going to him and his inbox.
In the words of the late John Hart Ely, a renowned legal scholar, the difficulty is to find "a way or ways of protecting minorities from majority tyranny that is not a flagrant contradiction of the principle of majority rule".
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Any flagrant contradictions between patriarchal and later mores have presumably been censored; yet distinctive features of the post-Mosaic religion are absent.
This is the dilemma that runs through all Arendt's writing, demonstrating that what she observed about Marx is true of her as well: "Such fundamental and flagrant contradictions rarely occur in second-rate writers; in the work of the great authors they lead into the very center of their work".
Many children of Asian immigrants learn early to negotiate between the "I" and the "We," between seemingly opposed ideas and flagrant contradictions, in order to appease and survive in both cultures.
The appearance of flagrant contradictions in the treatment of pro-autocracy and anti-autocracy individuals is what requires further clarification on the part of Gomaa, Jifri, and those who support them.
The columnist's grace is to avoid being predictable, but across the length of a book this can result in flagrant self-contradiction.
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