How to Use contradict in a Sentence
contradict
verb
- He contradicted the charges of his critics.
- The mayor's actions in office contradicted the promises he made during the campaign.
- My sister doesn't like being contradicted.
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As a result, some of the events in the second book contradict the events in the first. .
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Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
27 Oct. 2021
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But then so are the other people (in the play) who contradict him.
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Andrew O’Hagan,
The New York Review of Books,
13 Apr. 2021
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That opinion has not in the last two years been contradicted by any court.
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Tom Loftus,
The Courier-Journal,
22 Mar. 2018
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But there are a few points that contradict the picture.
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Peggy Noonan,
WSJ,
23 Oct. 2020
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By the time the credits roll, the movie has contradicted itself in the profoundest of ways.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
22 Dec. 2023
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Court records in the document case contradict his claims.
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Ryan King,
Washington Examiner,
18 Jan. 2023
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Claims like these don’t contradict your account or put your sister in the right.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
6 Feb. 2023
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That claim is contradicted by the video of his talk with detectives.
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David Ovalle,
miamiherald,
5 June 2018
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As is often the case in these disputes, even the complaints seem to contradict each other.
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Nestor Ramos,
BostonGlobe.com,
12 July 2018
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This contradicts the statements from others that this had nothing to do with the campaign.
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Chris Cillizza,
CNN,
3 May 2018
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The findings contradict a narrative that was a large part of the school's history.
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Paul Best,
Fox News,
10 Dec. 2020
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Now Humm was confronted with a set of goals that seem to contradict each other.
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WSJ,
3 May 2021
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Over the years, the government of Brazil has seemed to contradict itself on such questions.
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Monte Reel,
The New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2022
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Coach Kennedy’s own words contradict the idea that his act was private.
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Linda K. Wertheimer,
BostonGlobe.com,
5 July 2022
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One of his early crimes, shown in flashback, appears to contradict that code.
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Washington Post,
21 Jan. 2021
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But in a trend that contradicts normal patterns, the road team has a better record in each stadium.
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Giana Han,
al,
15 Nov. 2019
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Mnuchin, though, did appear to contradict Trump in terms of the scope of the ZTE talks.
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Damian Paletta and David J. Lynch,
chicagotribune.com,
22 May 2018
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Later in his speech, Brooks seemed to contradict his election fraud case.
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Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com,
al,
24 Jan. 2021
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How will consumers trust you if your brand’s actions contradict its words, or if the effort comes across as forced?
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Philip Kushmaro,
Forbes,
28 June 2021
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Both findings contradict the idea that outsiders are the ones driving up housing prices.
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Keli‘i Akina,
WSJ,
19 Sep. 2022
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Blake Pieroni is among Hoosiers trying to contradict that.
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David Woods,
The Indianapolis Star,
15 May 2021
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So a false belief remains fixed, and any outcomes that contradict it are not accepted by the brain.
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Michele Solis,
Scientific American,
1 Oct. 2020
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That’s not the only move Iger has made that contradicts his previous stances.
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Emma Roth,
The Verge,
6 Sep. 2023
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This seems to contradict our portion which suggests that good deeds are performed for reward.
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Rabbi Avi Weiss,
Jewish Journal,
15 May 2017
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That contradicts recent reports that said charges were headed her way.
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Jonah Valdez,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Oct. 2023
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The photographs, which seemed to contradict his public stance, were taken over the weekend.
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Anthony Leonardi,
Washington Examiner,
6 Oct. 2020
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Salem hosts are not free to voice opinions that contradict the network’s pro-Trump stance.
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Krista Kafer,
The Denver Post,
18 Nov. 2019
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