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But there is much that is historically wrongheaded, strategically unwise, and logically vague or self-contradictory in this document.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

It’s fuzzy-edged, nuanced, self-contradictory, and its pluralistic approach to the East has both a historical and a contemporary vocation.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2024

"If North Korea ever invades the South again, it will be self-contradictory, where a U.N. member state would be attacking the U.N. Command," Shin told the meeting.

From Reuters • Nov. 14, 2023

The lies are so silly and often so self-contradictory — and the people disseminating so obviously evil — that these texts just feel like confirming what we already knew.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2022

I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison