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The often affable yet self-contradicting Fury, however, soon suggested that money doesn’t matter.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2021

By design, these terms are imprecise, emotionally charged, and often self-contradicting.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2020

I spent hours talking to Kuhn in 1992, when he was at MIT, and he struck me as almost comically self-contradicting.

From Scientific American • Mar. 23, 2019

To wield this power and complain of disenfranchisement, as did the plaintiffs, is self-contradicting, to say the least.

From Washington Times • Apr. 12, 2016

That is a conception difficult beyond all the difficulties of the most arbitrary and self-contradicting of orthodox patristic or scholastic speculations.

From Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Rashdall, Hastings