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Answer for the clue "Phrase like "thundering silence" ", 8 letters:
oxymoron

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Oxymoron is the third studio album by American rapper Schoolboy Q . The album was released on February 25, 2014, by Top Dawg Entertainment and Interscope Records . Oxymoron was his first album released under a major record label to music retailers , whereas ...

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n. conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence') [also: oxymora (pl)]

Usage examples of oxymoron.

Gorgas fell silent, digesting the remark, which was tautology and oxymoron wrapped into one.

The less skilled, if that was not an oxymoron in the call-in psychic hotline business, quickly dropped off-line when he started talking about Interlopers that inhabited natural objects such as trees and rocks.

They had nothing to give up in the first place, for everybody else this love thy neighbor as thyself s a plain oxymoron, turned the whole country into a cradle of hypocrisy.

Looking at her for some reason made him think of an oxymoron his father used to quote when his mother was agitated about something trivial.

A government agent doing good was in his experience the most fundamental of oxymorons.

It was that there be an oxymoron strip, run by a pretty ugly stupid genius named Mistress Mann, who makes oxymorons literal.

This new voice was much higher in pitch and reedier in tone than Ralph's, did not sound even vaguely canine, and had no accent at all—Southern Florida Standard English, if that isn't an oxymoron.