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The phrase "flatly contradicts" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when one statement or idea directly opposes or goes against another. Example: The witness's testimony flatly contradicts the defendant's alibi.
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The best empirical evidence flatly contradicts that claim.
"The new opinion flatly contradicts the first one in several places," Mr. Bright said.
Reducing the idea to numbers, indeed, flatly contradicts the Court's position on quotas.
This flatly contradicts the suggestion that we are accepting "anybody who wants to turn up".
Ms. O'Brien said The Deseret News article "flatly contradicts" Mr. Romney's explanation.
"Because facts are stubborn things and the facts are that Iran's savage record flatly contradicts Rouhani's soothing rhetoric".
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The data flatly contradict this statement.
His stance is flatly contradicted today".
Nobody in the coalition wants to restart their earlier in-fighting by flatly contradicting her.
That measure, if it holds up in court, would flatly contradict Mr Bush's voluntarist approach.
Mexico's finance minister, Francisco Gil Diaz, flatly contradicted the rich countries last weekend.
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