I have lost all my contacts how can they be restored

Hi
My contacts got transfered to all my devices except my ipad.  As they were not wanted on one iphone they were delteted from that device but fortunately icloud wasn't on on my ipad.  So all of my contacts are still there but I cannot get them back onto my mac or my other iphone.  I tried a sync and it showed all contacts being restored but when I checked the iphone about 100 out of 1000 were there.  I also cannot find them on my mac.
Can anyone help?

Your contacts will be in whatever program you have selcted to sync.

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