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oxymoron

2 definitions • 2 examples
1
two words or phrases used together that have, or seem to have, opposite meanings:

Examples:

The very notion of an entrepreneurial company man is an oxymoron.
For most of the nineteenth century, scholars treated “medieval science” as an oxymoron.
2
a phrase or statement that seems to say two opposite things, as in "jumbo shrimp" and "agree to disagree"

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