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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-01T13:00:14.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Why does \"sanction\" mean to punish AND to permit? How can \"bolt\" mean to fix in place AND to run away? Such self-contradictory words are known as contronyms and English has many of them. In this video, I investigate how they come about.\n\nPlus my friend and \"quite good\" YouTuber Evan Edinger talks us through some transatlantic opposites.",
  "title": "Why some words are their own opposites"
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