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oxymoron
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    The arm squeezes viciously around my throat, and I decide the term "angel of mercy" is an oxymoron.†  (source)
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    Fun math is an oxymoron.†  (source)
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    Bullhead City is a community in the oxymoronic, late-twentieth-century idiom.†  (source)
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    Like they say, military intelligence is an oxymoron.†  (source)
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    and for about ten years, I'd had an obsessive crush on this brunette with blue eyes from school whom I'd always called Katherine the Best and Hassan played like Cyrano and told me exactly how to woo her because as we know from Katrina, Hassan is actually quite good at that stuff, and it worked and I loved her and she loved me and it lasted for three months, until NOV ember of tenth grade, when she finally broke up with me because she said, and I am quoting directly here, that I was both 'too smart and too dumb' for her, which marked the beginning of Katherines having ridiculous, idiotic, and frequently oxymoronic reasons for breaking up with me.†  (source)
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    Simple grandeur, she thought, finding the oxymoron the perfect description of the ancient and the life going quietly on around it.†  (source)
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    This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic.†  (source)
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    'Math joke' is an oxymoron, Fishhead, like 'cafeteria food' or 'required volunteer community service.†  (source)
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    Langdon thought it sounded impossibly oxymoronic.†  (source)
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    Why the oxymoron?†  (source)
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    The kind that lets you embrace those internal contradictions that make up an entire, oxymoronic, complex, complete human being.†  (source)
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    According to paranormal investigators—an oxymoron if Jeremy had ever heard one—poltergeists were generally drawn to a particular person instead of a place.†  (source)
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    I know that sounds like an oxymoron.†  (source)
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