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Oxymoron   /ˌɑksˈimˈɔrɑn/   Listen
Oxymoron

noun
1.
Conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence').





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"Oxymoron" Quotes from Famous Books



... broadened a trifle. "Exactly. There wasn't any. I'm rather used to the vibration of jets, and these new jobs float along at a hundred thousand feet in the deadest silence you ever heard—if you'll pardon the oxymoron. Everybody chattered like a flight of starlings, just to keep ...
— Nor Iron Bars a Cage.... • Gordon Randall Garrett


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