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Oxymorons"

Act naturally

Found missing

Resident alien

Advanced BASIC

Genuine imitation

Safe sex

Airline food

Good grief

Same difference

Almost exactly

Government organization

Sanitary landfill

Alone together

Legally drunk

Silent scream

British fashion

Living dead

Small crowd

Business ethics

Soft rock

Military intelligence

Software documentation

California culture

New classic

Sweet sorrow

Childproof

«Now, then...»

Synthetic natural gas

Passive aggression

Taped live

Clearly misunderstood

Peace force

Toronto Life

Temporary tax increase

Computer jock

Plastic glasses

Terribly pleased

Computer security

Political science

Tight slacks

Definite maybe

Pretty ugly

Twelve-ounce pound cake

Diet ice cream

Rap music

Working vacation

Exact estimate

and finally:

Microsoft Works !!!

• oxymoron: a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect

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