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But it was self-refuting, since it also acknowledged that the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

If any phrase were ever self-refuting, that’s it.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2023

Pinker accuses postmodernists of “defiant obscurantism, self-refuting relativism and suffocating political correctness.”

From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2021

In that sense, accusations of opportunism from aggravated donors are self-refuting.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2018

What a confusion of assertions and of self-refuting contradictions!

From Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by Thomas, C. H.