noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
apparent
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However, just occasionally, the evidence of the two disciplines is in apparent contradiction .
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The capability for reasoning becomes increasingly logical and less subject to influence by apparent perceptual contradictions .
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It seems to have been a religion that was in transition, which may explain some startling contradictions or apparent contradictions.
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He attempted to explain apparent contradictions in testimony he gave under aggressive questioning by plaintiffs' lawyers several weeks ago.
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In this way, apparent contradictions between Copernican astronomy and biblical texts would be eliminated.
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Instead, when fully understood, the apparent contradiction may reveal a new causal factor that was not considered before.
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During training the student will learn from many teachers, and the junior nurse can be confused by apparent differences and contradictions .
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This apparent contradiction of the model by Proust's text is not a sign of the model's inadequacy but the reverse.
basic
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Despite this basic contradiction , he began with a notable act of conciliation.
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Marx believed that the basic contradictions contained in a capitalist economic system would lead to its eventual destruction.
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It is with this basic contradiction that Forester avoided sentimentality.
direct
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Schor's evidence is in direct contradiction to the neo-classical income / leisure trade-off model outlined above.
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Doesn't that imply a belief in intrinsic essences that is in direct contradiction with the fundamental principles of existentialism?
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These results still constitute, therefore, a direct contradiction of the thesis being developed here.
full
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Progress may be painfully fast or slow, and will be full of contradictions .
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The main character in the drama was full of contradictions .
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Myths themselves are full of contradictions and inconsistencies.
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He was too full of contradictions , just as my head is too full of images of him, even now.
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His sop to secular society is full of contradictions .
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If it is full of contradictions , or if it is too vague, this is very difficult.
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The city is full of contradictions .
fundamental
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This is perhaps the most difficult one and brings up a number of fundamental contradictions .
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Technology development strategies exhibit a fundamental logical contradiction .
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No increase in laws, compacts, and penalties can succeed in overcoming the fundamental contradictions of the system.
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It has been said to be a fundamental contradiction in the Weberian model of bureaucracy.
inherent
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International events have shown that there is an inherent contradiction between a one-party state and mass democracy.
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But the neo-communists no longer believe there is an inherent contradiction between political authoritarianism and a more free-wheeling economy, he said.
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Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature.
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He argued that the international monetary system, based largely on the dollar, contained certain inherent contradictions .
internal
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There were too many internal contradictions which prevented the different constituencies from working effectively together.
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That internal contradiction means that the council tax will not survive.
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Rather than accusing him of anachronism, academic critics tended to concentrate their fire on internal contradictions or flawed assumptions in his policy.
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There is a danger of internal contradiction .
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His debating technique, however, disguised some fatal flaws and internal contradictions in Labour policy.
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Despite its internal contradictions , capitalism has continued in the West for over 200 years.
■ VERB
contain
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But Rousseau's blueprint contains its own contradiction .
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Every complex whole is therefore said to contain a principal contradiction and secondary contradictions.
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Welfare as a discretionary standard contains contradictions and thus provides little guidance to the disposition of trouble cases.
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This conflict of interest must ultimately be resolved since a social system containing such contradictions can not survive unchanged.
involve
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As written, the text involves a contradiction .
resolve
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How, then, do women engineers resolve the contradictions of their presence in a male world?
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The author or authors wanted to resolve apparent contradictions in order to make the law more usable and accessible.
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How can we resolve this apparent contradiction ?
see
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Modern men also stipulate that they mustn't be boring, without seeing any contradiction in that thought.
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I did not see much contradiction .
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The brewers see no contradiction in their involvement.
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Gary does not see a contradiction .
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He saw no contradictions in this.
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Nkrumah saw this as a contradiction , and was critical, thus annoying Nyerere who should have been a natural ally.
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Thus Baudelaire and Flaubert can be seen without contradiction as both realists and early modernists.
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Ghatak did not see any contradiction between these two approaches.
seem
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The problem is that there's little to offer in between; high street quality seems almost a contradiction in terms.
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Even now, it seems a strange contradiction , but not a sinister one.
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Unfortunately for Carter, Spackerman's evidence of an assault followed by strangulation seemed a complete contradiction of Macarthy's opinion.
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This seems a contradiction on the face of it.
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This may seem like a contradiction .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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America is a society rich in contradiction .
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Gage is a man of contradictions: a vegetarian who owns a cattle ranch.
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His speech was full of lies and contradictions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Rousseau's blueprint contains its own contradiction .
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He has inverted the traditional precepts governing the photographic image, demonstrating the value of visual contradiction .
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The contradiction between faith and knowledge is thus resolved.
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The capability for reasoning becomes increasingly logical and less subject to influence by apparent perceptual contradictions.
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There is really no mystery about this contradiction .
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There were too many internal contradictions which prevented the different constituencies from working effectively together.
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These factors are conflicts and contradictions within the set of duties.
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This, it would appear on the surface, is one hell of a contradiction .