adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
apparently
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Explanations for these apparently contradictory tendencies will not be found by taking an instrumental approach to family law.
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Which of these apparently contradictory views is nearer to the truth?
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Williams was a man who was able to hold many apparently contradictory ideas in harmony.
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Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period, it might have seemed more logical.
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Both of these apparently contradictory statements are obviously true, but only at the level of empirical observation.
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I think that what links those two apparently contradictory aspects is precisely a concern with morality.
often
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Attitudes to addiction are complicated and often contradictory .
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Sam assigned a team to organize the ideas into categories and make sense out of the wide-ranging and often contradictory criticisms.
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Indeed, there exists an equally strong, and in this context often contradictory , philosophical premiss, that of paternalism.
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Here the data are often contradictory and difficult to interpret.
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The evidence here is often contradictory , and suggests that in practice, there were variations in what was asked of women.
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These influences are strong, and often contradictory .
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With regard to the search for consensus the results are often contradictory .
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First, these needs were themselves ambiguous and often contradictory .
seemingly
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Many of these seemingly contradictory properties of the agents are related to dose.
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The editors of Consumer Reports Travel Letter thus were struck by the seemingly contradictory results of three recent airline quality reports.
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With these two seemingly contradictory attitudes in mind, underline all the adjectives you've used.
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The new account of his life shows a complex and at times seemingly contradictory person.
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Case said these seemingly contradictory deals were simple exercises in economic balance of power.
sometimes
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The result is, as we have seen, a difficult and sometimes contradictory compromise.
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Details of Dixon's life are sparse and sometimes contradictory .
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The aims of education or complex and sometimes contradictory .
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Their position is complex, sometimes contradictory and occasionally uncomfortable.
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The ambiguity of something so ill-defined argued for on such different, and sometimes contradictory grounds, needs serious analysis.
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Gender identities are ways of life, multi-faceted and sometimes contradictory .
■ NOUN
demand
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The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.
message
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Very often in our work we give contradictory messages .
nature
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These arguments provide the foundation for Simmel's account of the contradictory nature of modern life.
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Have you had this contradictory nature for very long?
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They may be more aware of the contradictory nature of their actual relationship with the texts they read.
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It is the contradictory nature of humankind that makes the struggle with evil so complicated.
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The contradictory nature of the process allows for no ultimate resolution.
statement
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In addition each of the gospels contains contradictory statements about the same event.
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Vague, contradictory statements of intent are not enough.
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Both of these apparently contradictory statements are obviously true, but only at the level of empirical observation.
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He was acquitted on May 25, 1990, largely because of contradictory statements by witnesses.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Upon further questioning, the witnesses gave inconsistent and sometimes contradictory answers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Candidates must make decisions quickly, sometimes with little or contradictory information.
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Case said these seemingly contradictory deals were simple exercises in economic balance of power.
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His policies, especially in the first two years of his presidency, often have been confusing and contradictory .
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If I took any of this particularly seriously I would risk suffering from nutritional whiplash, pursuing health in precisely contradictory binges.
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Moreover. such goals that can be indicated are frequently vague, multiple and contradictory .
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Recently, I have begun to notice another phenomenon: contradictory placenames.
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The result is, as we have seen, a difficult and sometimes contradictory compromise.