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Example sentences for: oxymoron

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I also hope that the oxymoron will remind me to include applause as well as condemnation in my dispatches.
For many commentators, a book about the future of the U.S. apparel and textile industries is still an oxymoron.
The cynical spin: As with last week's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade and last year's bombing of a Sudanese chemical plant that was evidently mistaken for a chemical weapons facility, the ski lift disaster (attributed in part to government maps that failed to show the ski lift) proves again that U.S. military intelligence is an oxymoron.
The year before the outbreak of the American Revolution, Priestley succeeded in removing from air, so he thought, the substance called phlogiston which was thought to be what put fires out, and dubbed his dephlogisticated air oxygen because he supposed it to be an essential ingredient of acids (Greek oxy -, sharp—as in oxymoron —plus - gen , related to the verb gignomai , I become, happen, am born) .
“ Retrogressive aggrandizements,” maybe, but that's an oxymoron of another colour entirely.