seeming contradiction

collocation in English

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seeming
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈsiː.mɪŋ/us
/ˈsiː.mɪŋ/
appearing to be something, especially when this is ...
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contradiction
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌkɒn.trəˈdɪk.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːn.trəˈdɪk.ʃən/
the fact of something being the complete opposite of something else or very different from something else, so that one of them must ...
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(Definition ofseemingandcontradictionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Anotherseemingcontradictionto the generalisations about gemination concerns prefixes.
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My argument is that thisseemingcontradictionhas confounded archaeology's attempts to come to terms with materiality.
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Thisseemingcontradictionis explicable by deeper reflection on the nature of rulership and complex governance.
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With this general point in mind, theseemingcontradictionbetween different area-studies literatures becomes intelligible.
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Political elites and international financial institutions have supported collective land rights, inseemingcontradictionto broader neoliberal policies, in part because of the ethnically specific content of such claims.
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Thisseemingcontradictionis overcome when one understands that only around 10% of all people with blindness can see absolutely nothing at all.
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Thisseemingcontradictionis explained on the ground that evil is not bad in itself, but only in its relation to man.
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Unsure what to make of thisseemingcontradiction, the party advances toward the castle.
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This is aseemingcontradictionin terms: by definition, a straight man is the counterpart to a more loony comedic partner.
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However, inseemingcontradictionto this, several studies have strongly associated neutrophil hypersegmentation with iron deficiency anemia.
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Theseemingcontradictionbetween the zooarchaeological and residue studies appears to be a matter of scale.
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Thisseemingcontradictioncan be explained in the following way.
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The mingling of these terms, the blending of the seeming contradictions, terror and triumph, pleasure and fear, collapses the naturalized distinction between them.
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Therefore, they were experiments in virtual theatre, theseemingcontradictionin terms, since both laypersons and professionals have generally thought of theatre as requiring physical co-presence of performer's and audience.
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While many changes involved straightening out seeming contradictions or making small clarifications, other changes added large lost portions to the text.
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