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Example sentences for: contradicts

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Literalist approaches to the Bible/Torah/Koran contend that when reason contradicts the word of God , reason is misguided.
Bill Kristol ( This Week ) thinks the agents might testify that Clinton met with Monica Lewinsky Dec. 28--timing that not only contradicts Clinton's sworn testimony (that he never met with Lewinsky after Christmas) but suggests they met to discuss legal strategies.
Bodine analyzes the ways in which (male) grammarians (both descriptive and prescriptive) have since the seventeenth century sought to establish he as the sex-indefinite pronoun despite evidence that actual usage consistently contradicts that.
Meanwhile, the testimony of politicians like Susan Molinari who confess their youthful "experimentation" with marijuana contradicts rhetoric about its addictive qualities.
How are we supposed to read a story containing a one-line disclaimer that contradicts its entire narrative thrust?