verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
directly
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Implied terms can thus supplement express rules, or introduce new rules, but can not directly contradict an existing rule.
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Also, much of the advice found in one book directly contradicts that found in another.
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This directly contradicted statements made by both Reagan and Weinberger.
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This is most curious, considering that in the same column he seems to directly contradict this very point.
flatly
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It is also true that the two main Opposition parties have energy policies which are flatly contradicted by their environmental policies.
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Since the trauma of 1929, few people contest this need, although it flatly contradicts the tradition of economic liberalism.
■ NOUN
claim
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The result was disappointing because it so patently contradicted his claim to be a truly national leader.
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Notice that the name Makah has a nasal consonant-thus appearing to contradict the claim that these languages have no nasals.
evidence
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The experimental evidence does not contradict this view, although it doesn't support it very strongly either.
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There is no evidence or testimony contradicting those statements.
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Their ideologies create enclosed belief-systems that can not be affected by evidence which contradicts them.
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Mrs Clinton has said she had no role in that phase of the matter, and no evidence contradicts her.
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However, the evidence contradicts this.
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For this reason, evidence contradicting previously accepted beliefs is difficult to believe and to write about.
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Further evidence contradicting the traditional symmetric rift valley model comes from observations of their morphology and surface structure.
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Research evidence contradicts the commonly held belief that neonates do not perceive pain. 2.
other
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Villagers' stories contradict each other .
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After all, the two clauses appear to contradict each other .
statement
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Pavlov's allegations contradicted earlier official statements which portrayed the currency confiscation as an attack on black marketeers and excess money supply.
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There is no evidence or testimony contradicting those statements .
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The brief contradicts statements made by Philip Morris executives in congressional hearings, the lobbyist said.
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This directly contradicted statements made by both Reagan and Weinberger.
view
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The experimental evidence does not contradict this view , although it doesn't support it very strongly either.
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They do not necessarily contradict the view that for more serious crimes women are less severely treated then men.
■ VERB
appear
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For this reason, it is important to examine those societies that appear to contradict much of scientific and commonsensical explanation.
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Notice that the name Makah has a nasal consonant-thus appearing to contradict the claim that these languages have no nasals.
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The fact that there were generally fluctuations in rated subjective risk might appear to contradict zero-risk theory.
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Yet at times kungfu appears to contradict itself, professing one thing while seeming to do the opposite.
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After all, the two clauses appear to contradict each other.
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The survey appears to contradict motor industry claims that customers still rate high performance as one of the most desirable attributes.
seem
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Nobody in his camp seemed willing to contradict him.
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Mitchell was by nature cautious with people although the island seemed to contradict this tendency in him.
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The evidence, however, seems to contradict this.
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This is most curious, considering that in the same column he seems to directly contradict this very point.
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All this seems to contradict the expectation of the manipulation theorists.
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Have you had lots of instruction with each new teacher seeming to contradict the one before?
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Yet these are feelings which seem to contradict the universalist, rational aspirations of liberalism.
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This would seem to contradict , however, the notion of major transgressions being the much-delayed after-effects of an orogeny.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Heating the water to 150° F kills bacteria but contradicts efforts to save energy.
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O'Brien's later statement contradicted what he had told Somerville police on the night of the murder.
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Recent experiments seem to contradict earlier results.
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Smith gave an account that contradicted the woman's tearful testimony last week.
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The two newspaper reports totally contradict each other.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, much of the advice found in one book directly contradicts that found in another.
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Implied terms can thus supplement express rules, or introduce new rules, but can not directly contradict an existing rule.
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It would hearten the many feminists who crowded the church that night without contradicting the teachings of the magisterium.
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Something was wrong; what I read contradicted the sight of these travelers.
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There is no evidence or testimony contradicting those statements.
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This would contradict the open-ended accessibility that is the hallmark of unit trusts.
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To create a more original effect well-known phrases and sayings can be contrasted with others which contradict them.
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What he must do is to formulate an assertion which contradicts our own, and give us his instruction for testing it.