How Can a Programming Language be both Statically-Typed and Dynamically-Typed?

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Statically-typed languages and dynamically-typed languages in principle seem like opposite concepts. However, how can a language like Objective-C for example be both of these things at once? It seems to me that Objective-C is more static than dynamic. Can somebody explain how this is possible?

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