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Punitive damages are meant to sting, Tobias said, so juries tend to award sums proportionate to the defendant’s finances despite many states contradictorily having caps on such awards.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2022

The new film can’t replace that with anything other than a playfully mischievous attitude toward history, as “The King’s Man” makes numerous jabs at colonialism while contradictorily being essentially pro-monarchy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2021

My protagonist needed to be engaged in work that is contradictorily appreciated only when it is invisible.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020

“I never wanted the attention,” she said, somewhat contradictorily.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2018

And, indeed, geology gives us an answer; but it reads contradictorily: It says yes, and it says no.

From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.