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01. Cuts to the health budget seem to [contradict] the governor's promise to improve health care in our state.
02. The marks on the prisoner's body [contradicted] government claims that he had died of natural causes.
03. What he says, and what he does totally [contradict] each other.
04. Life is full of [contradictions], such as pro-lifers who support capital punishment.
05. The remark by Prime Minister Beaumont totally [contradicted] the Minister of Finance's previous statement.
06. There is a terrible [contradiction] in the concept of a religious war.
07. Sometimes human claims attributed to God are [contradictory].
08. Mandell Creighton once suggested that all true knowledge [contradicts] common sense.
09. Jose Ortega y Gasset once said that revolution is not the uprising against pre-existing order, but the setting-up of a new order [contradictory] to the traditional one.
10. Over 2000 years ago, Socrates complained, "Children today are tyrants. They [contradict] their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
11. William James once remarked that there is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to [contradict] other philosophers.
12. Depending on when you ask her, she will continually [contradict] herself.
13. The evidence collected in the investigation into the death of President John F. Kennedy quite clearly [contradicts] the claim that he was assassinated by one man acting alone.
14. The results of his experiment seem to [contradict] the findings of earlier studies.
15. The discovery that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol on a regular basis is actually good for one's health [contradicts] everything I heard about alcohol while I was growing up.
16. Psychologist Carl Rogers suggested that, in general, people act in ways that supports rather than [contradicts] their own beliefs about themselves.
17. My supervisor said today that there wouldn't be any reduction in staff, directly [contradicting] what he had said only a week before.
18. She did not make a credible witness because she [contradicted] herself several times.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • Contradict — Con tra*dict , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Contradicted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Contradicting}.] [L. contradictus, p. p. of contradicere to speak against; contra + dicere to speak. See {Diction}.] 1. To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • contradict — [kän΄trə dikt′] vt. [< L contradictus, pp. of contradicere < contra , CONTRA + dicere, to speak: see DICTION] 1. a) to assert the opposite of (what someone else has said) b) to deny the statement of (a person) 2. to declare (a statement,… …   English World dictionary

  • Contradict — Con tra*dict, v. i. To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something. [1913 Webster] They . . . spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Acts xiii. 45. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • contradict — I verb ab re discrepare, abrogate, affirm the contrary, annul, answer back, argue, assert the contrary, assert the opposite, challenge, clash, come in conflict with, conflict, confute, contradicere, contrast, contravene, controvert, counter,… …   Law dictionary

  • contradict — 1570s, speak against, also assert the contrary (1580s), from L. contradictus, pp. of contradicere (see CONTRADICTION (Cf. contradiction)). Related: Contradicted; contradicting; contradictive …   Etymology dictionary

  • contradict — *deny, gainsay, negative, contravene, traverse, impugn Analogous words: dispute (see DISCUSS): controvert, *disprove, refute, confute: belie, falsify, garble (see MISREPRESENT) Antonyms: corroborate Contrasted words: *confirm, verify,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • contradict — [v] be at variance with belie, buck, call in question*, challenge, confront, contravene, controvert, counter, counteract, cross, dare, deny, differ, disaffirm, disclaim, disprove, dispute, fly in the face of*, gainsay, have bone to pick*, impugn …   New thesaurus

  • contradict — ► VERB 1) deny the truth of (a statement) by asserting the opposite. 2) challenge (someone) by making a statement opposing one made by them. DERIVATIVES contradictor noun. ORIGIN Latin contradicere speak against …   English terms dictionary

  • contradict — [[t]kɒ̱ntrədɪ̱kt[/t]] contradicts, contradicting, contradicted 1) VERB If you contradict someone, you say that what they have just said is wrong, or suggest that it is wrong by saying something different. [V n] She dared not contradict him... [V… …   English dictionary

  • contradict — verb 1 (T) to disagree with something by saying that it is wrong or not true, especially by saying that the opposite is true: contradict sb: Don t contradict your father! | flatly contradict: The article flatly contradicts what the lobbyists have …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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