oxymoron

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There's an oxymoron if ever I've heard one.

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Quick take

conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

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noun

conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for oxymoron.

noun

conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

Example sentences

There's an oxymoron if ever I've heard one.

"Simply fire up Apache" is a bit of an oxymoron.

"Intellectual property" is an oxymoron and the laws are a farce.

Programming for non-programmers is an oxymoron to begin with.

"For marketers who are trying to establish a personal relationship with their customers..."Isn't that kind of an oxymoron?

I'm with pg here on the endless search for silence as well as your use of late nights to find it. I have sound-blocking ear muffs scattered all over the house and in two backpacks for when I'm studying on campus at Stanford, because at Stanford "quiet study area" seems to be an oxymoron.

You mean “without any prior evidence”. The phrase “a priori” means “by reason or deduction alone, without empirical evidence”. The phrase “a priori evidence” is an oxymoron.

From the article: "Proprietary security software is an oxymoron -- if the user is not fundamentally in control of the software, the user has no security.