Contradicts
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Examples
- Such a conception contradicts our basic idea that character and mind are attitudes of participative response in social affairs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That is my opinion, and I am ready to maintain it against any one who contradicts me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The servants contradict you, and Mr. Fairlie contradicts Miss Halcombe, and the supposed Lady Glyde contradicts herself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Such enthusiasts postulate a uniformity of human ability which every fact of life contradicts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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