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What does an oxymoron mean?

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Oxymoron means a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
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Oxymoron means a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in "cruel kindness " or "to make haste slowly"
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