Example sentences for: contradicts

How can you use “contradicts” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Neither was able to do so very well for a simple reason: It contradicts what they think.

  • Herrnstein and Murray used quasi-nutty studies that support their position (as Charles Lane demonstrated in the New York Review of Books ), and ignore mainstream studies that contradict it (as Richard Nisbett showed in the New Republic ). The data in The Bell Curve are consistently massaged to produce conservative conclusions; not once is a finding that contradicts the main thesis reported in the text.

  • For those arriving late to this dispute: In an earlier item (" FDR: Father of Rock 'n' Roll"), Chatterbox wrote that "boomer math contradicts the boomer mythology that it was the baby boom that first absorbed rock 'n' roll into the mass culture."

  • How are we supposed to read a story containing a one-line disclaimer that contradicts its entire narrative thrust?

  • This contradicts the widespread view among cyberfolk (including, apparently, the study's own disappointed authors) that people staring into computer screens form a wonderful new type of electronic community.


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