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Which sentence contains an example of Oxymoron?

Golden Heart

If you lose it, you will win

Everything is true

Make haste slowly

An oxymoron is a rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetorical point or to reveal a paradox. The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective–noun combination of two words, but they can also be devised in the meaning of sentences or phrases.

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