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figure of speech that uses seeming contradictions

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  • "Conservative rebel" is almost oxymoronic, which is why William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan stood out so much.
  • To put the words "efficiency" and the EU in the same sentence can only be described as oxymoronic or, if you like, simply moronic.
  • The word 'real' and Beverly Hills are kind of oxymoronic,'' he says over the phone.
  • I know, I know, you’re thinking, “But John, aren’t ‘Liberal Mormon’ and ‘Mormon Intellectual’ kind of oxymoronic?”
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