oxymoronic
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In a feat of luck that surprises both visitors and me alike, I live in one of those coveted, mysterious and oxymoronic L.A. neighborhoods: a walkable one.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
Ms. Rivera Garza cites Revueltas’s concept in “Human Mourning” of “inhabited footprints,” the seemingly oxymoronic condition of displaced people who discover a sense of belonging in their migrations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Being an adult child is an oxymoronic experience.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026
Its host Alan Cumming paid tribute to the show's "crew in Scotland who had to understand the concept that the Scottish summer is sometimes oxymoronic".
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2025
Bullhead City is a community in the oxymoronic, late-twentieth-century idiom.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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