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"contradiction" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

contradiction sustantivo

contradiction + verbo
Kolokacji: 5
contradiction exists • contradiction abounds • contradiction arises • contradiction lies • contradiction remains
verbo + contradiction
Kolokacji: 8
see no contradiction • contain contradictions • find contradictions • lead to a contradiction • highlight contradictions • ...
adjetivo + contradiction
Kolokacji: 41
apparent contradiction • direct contradiction • inherent contradiction • internal contradiction • seeming contradiction • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 4
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 12
(1) apparent, seeming, obvious, blatant, evident
Kolokacji: 5
(2) direct, irreconcilable, implicit, absolute
Kolokacji: 4
(3) inherent, internal, inner, built-in, structural
Kolokacji: 5
(4) logical, philosophical
Kolokacji: 2
(5) fundamental, basic, central, great, essential
Kolokacji: 5
(6) cultural, social
Kolokacji: 2
(7) complete, total, stark
Kolokacji: 3
(8) flat, clear, outright, sharp
Kolokacji: 4
(9) strange, curious
Kolokacji: 2
1. strange contradiction = dziwna sprzeczność strange contradiction
2. curious contradiction = ciekawa sprzeczność curious contradiction
  • The house was a curious contradiction in terms.
  • Some 100 films were waiting for release as cinemas, in a curious contradiction, was forced to show each and every film so made.
  • This was a curious contradiction in Richard's nature.
  • Below even the labourer was the emancipist, though this group was perhaps the most curious contradiction in the pecking order.
  • Yet, such were the curious contradictions of his character that Baldwin always remained closely in touch with the work of the Foreign Office.
  • So here was another curious contradiction.
  • There is a curious contradiction here.
  • The speculative approach, the strict, almost stark geometry of the arrangements and the relative indifference to the people produce a curious contradiction.
  • The performance was full of curious contradictions, and one fascinating thing about it was the way it hit all the extremes of current period-instrument playing.
  • And there seems to be a curious contradiction at work.
(10) major, unresolved
Kolokacji: 2
(11) deep, puzzling, profound
Kolokacji: 3
(12) moral, serious, real, certain
Kolokacji: 4
preposición + contradiction
Kolokacji: 10
of contradictions • with contradictions • in contradiction • to contradictions • for contradictions • ...

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