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"ref": "2008, BI Karaman, “On contronymy”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 21, number 2",
"text": "Contronymy, a phenomenon which has received much attention in recent years, has often been described as sense opposition at the micro-level.",
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"ref": "2011, Tony Thorne, The 100 Words That Make The English",
"text": "Today the same word can mean 'wholly', 'to a considerable extent' ('Quite the little madam, aren't we?') or '(only) to some extent', 'partially' or 'somewhat' ('feeling quite tired'), though theoretical linguists explain this slightly differently: 'At the micro-level the lexical unit represents a case for contronymy of antonymy type if it can be subjected to gradation and if it comprises at least two senses which are contradictory within one aspect.'",
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"ref": "2013, Hye Seung Lee, “Semantics of COM”, in Selected Papers from the Seventeenth College-Wide Conference for Students in Languages, Linguistics, & Literature",
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