Example Sentences

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But Larijani and top military commanders have contradicted him and continued launching strikes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

However, other studies have contradicted this by revealing a significant difference in reflectance spectra between Ryugu samples and CI chondrites.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2023

Accounts given to journalists by local people have contradicted claims by US officials about the attack.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2021

Little Lyanna Mormont would have contradicted that assertion; sadly, she’s dead.

From Salon • May 6, 2019

This desire was by no means malicious, for those very attributes which attracted Helen to her would have contradicted anything so really reprehensible, even as a counter-irritant.

From The Spell by Orcutt, William Dana