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But to Americans, local justice sometimes seems like an oxymoron.

Personal space, of course, is an oxymoron for most Chinese.

Democracy by force should be an oxymoron, not a foreign policy.

I see what you're saying, but it's not really an oxymoron.

First up is a technology that would have been considered an oxymoron just a few years ago.

A democratic leader is, at least in part, an oxymoron.

The very idea will strike many people as an oxymoron.

The law of war is at once an oxymoron and highly developed.

The "Christian right" has always seemed to me an oxymoron.

An oxymoron is a term for a figure of speech.

Juvenile justice here is, in almost every sense, an oxymoron.

Now she'll have a chance to run a real virtual company, if that's not an oxymoron.

In Japan these days, the words healthy bank may seem to be an oxymoron.

Discipline in sports has become an oxymoron, both on the playing field and off.

But others say a permit for free expression is an oxymoron.

The commercial play, perhaps an oxymoron in itself, was an endangered species.

I mean, it just - it's an oxymoron in security.

Or is it an oxymoron to have a fun run?"

The phrase "successful public art project" may sound like an oxymoron.

"The man is a walking oxymoron, but it has not stopped him from working his way up," he wrote.

Or oxymoron, if you want to be elitist about it.

The oxymoron makes one more skeptical about the earlier chapters.

Corporate and government downsizing have turned job security into an oxymoron.

Over the last decade, gold investing has been an oxymoron.

Sometimes, the joke is just to say that a pair of words are an oxymoron.