How to Use contradict in a Sentence

contradict

verb
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  • 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.
  • Such conclusions contradict the old claims of Thoms and others that nature imposed a strict limit to lifetime.
    — Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Often, the systems of control in these films contradict and even exploit the values and norms the protagonists embrace.
    — Harry F. Dahms, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The clarity of McConnell's language, which is rare in a party afraid to contradict Trump, deserves credit.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Under the terms of the deal, the creators could not contradict anything Tolkien had written about the Second Age and had to follow the same broad narrative arc.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
  • But many older billionaires have publicly hated crypto, only to contradict themselves with investments later.
    — Mahnoor Khan, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2022
  • In 2016, Proctor’s attorney said Glenn was reaching for his partner’s gun, but footage from the scene contradicted that claim.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Today, most Republican voters believe the last election was stolen, and many of the party’s politicians either believe the same falsehoods or are afraid to contradict them.
    — Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Mnuchin, though, did appear to contradict Trump in terms of the scope of the ZTE talks.
    — Damian Paletta and David J. Lynch, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
  • As a result, some of the events in the second book contradict the events in the first. .
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
  • But then so are the other people (in the play) who contradict him.
    — Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
  • By the time the credits roll, the movie has contradicted itself in the profoundest of ways.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
  • That opinion has not in the last two years been contradicted by any court.
    — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2018
  • But there are a few points that contradict the picture.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Claims like these don’t contradict your account or put your sister in the right.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Over the years, the government of Brazil has seemed to contradict itself on such questions.
    — Monte Reel, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
  • But as Newport points out, Jobs’s own career contradicts the advice in the speech.
    — Scott Galloway, TIME, 15 July 2024
  • As is often the case in these disputes, even the complaints seem to contradict each other.
    — Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
  • Coach Kennedy’s own words contradict the idea that his act was private.
    — Linda K. Wertheimer, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
  • Blake Pieroni is among Hoosiers trying to contradict that.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2021
  • Their bottom halves contradict their posh outfits — a sweater vest for Camila and a three-piece suit on the top for Matthew.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
  • Court records in the document case contradict his claims.
    — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2023
  • That claim is contradicted by the video of his talk with detectives.
    — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 5 June 2018
  • Now Humm was confronted with a set of goals that seem to contradict each other.
    — WSJ, 3 May 2021
  • Salem hosts are not free to voice opinions that contradict the network’s pro-Trump stance.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Later in his speech, Brooks seemed to contradict his election fraud case.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 24 Jan. 2021
  • That’s not the only move Iger has made that contradicts his previous stances.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2023
  • How will consumers trust you if your brand’s actions contradict its words, or if the effort comes across as forced?
    — Philip Kushmaro, Forbes, 28 June 2021

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