Example Sentences

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A young boy who suffered life-changing injuries when he was thrown from the Tate Modern viewing platform is "contradicting doctors' predictions", his family has said.

From BBC • May 29, 2022

“This memo, filed years after the case ended, proves Andy is contradicting himself.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 31, 2019

One of the seven, Hellickson, is contradicting his own recorded acknowledgments.

From Slate • Aug. 2, 2018

And nothing is contradicting the basic direction of the theory.”

From National Geographic • Nov. 28, 2015

There is heavy breathing in some of the cells, and I think that even Joe is contradicting his statement regarding sleep in the jail.

From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Osborne, Thomas Mott