oxymoron

Over the last decade, the idea of a "Chinese slowdown" has come to seem like an oxymoron.

The term "alternative investments" is something of an oxymoron.

He said the notion that markets are capable of regulating themselves is "an oxymoron. "

This may seem like an oxymoron as the economy is declining as more humans upon the mainland go into fear and cease to travel to the islands.

Upon reading the above title, you may find the statement to be a bit of an oxymoron.

Oxymoron: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.

The phrase 'friendly divorce' may strike some as an oxymoron, but it is increasingly a trend and a real possibility.

The term that we coined a few years ago, precision cosmology, used to be an oxymoron.

But critics say that "clean coal" is a pipe dream, an oxymoron in terms of the carbon emissions that count most toward climate change.

While it sounds like an oxymoron, altruistic punishment is basically how social norms get enforced.

Smells, whether pleasant or rotten, go far to define this city, where fresh air often seems like an oxymoron.

It may sound like an oxymoron: "A phone booth for the mobile world. "

Similarly, it is not an oxymoron to be a mainstream Muslim who believes in an Absolute.

Instead, the software is used as a simulation tool to route historical data, to create optimized fixed routes (sounds like an oxymoron).

Even the concept of a beautiful Asian man became an oxymoron.

The idea of an Aston Martin 'luxury commuter car' sounds like a double oxymoron. But it's not a joke.

It may sound like an oxymoron but money has its Achilles' heel.

It sounds like an oxymoron, since Ambien is in the family of sedatives.

Mr Vayner's assertion that impossible is nothing, though an oxymoron, is a belief shared by many companies.

Most likely, it's damaged for good as a potential currency with any real value, if that statement isn't an oxymoron on its face.

The first stage of CBD is the era of monolithic components, a seeming oxymoron that describes the adolescent state of components today.

The term "Professional Blogger" is no longer an oxymoron.

The term "serious actor" is kind of an oxymoron , isn't it? [Like] "Republican party" [or] "airplane food" .

What many already strongly suspected has been proclaimed true by events: quantifying in finance may be an oxymoron.

The decline of the phallus is especially evident in "urban Bhutan, " a term locals insist is not an oxymoron.

For some developers, given this conceptual framework, the idea of testing first is an oxymoron.

Fifth, the doctrine of expansionary fiscal contraction is an oxymoron in the current context.

Singapore also transcends orthodoxies by embodying what seems an oxymoron to free market purists: planned innovation.

Before that oxymoron was a technical term describing a rhetorical device.

You may wonder if that is an oxymoron, healthy and chocolate? ? ? ? Let me assure you, it's for real!

It sounds like an oxymoron.

when the excesses of the financial system were noted, they called for self-regulation -- an oxymoron.

You hosted Saturn, the taskmaster planet, in your house of happiness, romance, and leisure, but that's an astrological oxymoron.

A good, rejected paper, then, is by no means an oxymoron.

The term false hope is an oxymoron, and the person feeding you this crud is a moron.

The phrase "self-catering holiday" is an oxymoron.

Status quo is an oxymoron for any real human, because it's ever-changing and, if there's any life actually going on, pretty boring.

In spite of promises from governors about "shovel ready" projects, this term is almost an oxymoron. There were few such projects.

I realise that "exciting Canadian story" is for many people a good definition of an oxymoron.

Here's the latest fashion oxymoron: the casual dress shirt.

Because there is some people who understand live subtitles are a kind of an oxymoron.

The second half of oxymoron is -moron and yes, it really does mean "stupid" in Greek.

sounds like oxymoron 'cos it's complex. It's a simple and complex question at the same time.

You may wonder if that is an oxymoron, healthy and chocolate? ? ? ?

Playboy issued what it called a 'no comment' statement' (oxymoron? ) about the deal rumors.

The wisdom of crowds isn't an oxymoron.

Pastoral Wuhan scene. . . is that an oxymoron or what! ?

Oxymoron, a peculiar figure of speech in English, often poses irritating difficulties to comprehension and translation.

(Overbuilt and overpriced is, to be sure, an economic oxymoron, but we'll leave the explanation for that for later. )

Third, although it might sound like an oxymoron, you can schedule interruptions:

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Single dads are not suppose to exits, it's a sort of oxymoron;

Slightly longer term scalp trades (there's an oxymoron! ) are generally taken from three different trading patterns:

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