as in dichotomy
someone or something with qualities or features that seem to conflict with one another
the paradox of fighting a war for peace
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Recent Examples of paradox
The idea of bombing data centers and cutting power grids have also been discussed as technically possible, but at present a practical and political paradox.
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Kevin Williams, CNBC, 24 July 2025
This scenario is the business travel paradox: your most eager travelers are often your most vulnerable.
—Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
To settle the potato paradox, Zhang and his colleagues amassed more than 120 genomes from dozens of species spanning the potato, tomato, and Etuberosum groups and tried to piece together a narrative.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 31 July 2025
There is a constant paradox of art-making: as an art form accelerates its pace of change, its content grows more nostalgic.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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Kevin Williams, CNBC, 24 July 2025
This scenario is the business travel paradox: your most eager travelers are often your most vulnerable.
—Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
To settle the potato paradox, Zhang and his colleagues amassed more than 120 genomes from dozens of species spanning the potato, tomato, and Etuberosum groups and tried to piece together a narrative.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 31 July 2025
There is a constant paradox of art-making: as an art form accelerates its pace of change, its content grows more nostalgic.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paradox
Noun
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There’s also a wonderful dichotomy between Doc Brown and Marty.—
Jeff Conway,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Wolf had no interest in being a character in his own film, but the subject-director dichotomy that was playing out on camera would become key to understanding Reubens’ complexities.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
8 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Familiar and reassuring, cozy mysteries aren’t called that for nothing.—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Aug. 2025
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The mystery was solved via coincidence and the outcome was deeply unsatisfying.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Three Dots and a Dash was a revelation, the first of its kind anywhere, an assembly of delicious contradictions.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
23 Aug. 2025
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The contradiction is clear: Public knowledge fuels AI, but only a few corporations control its future.—
Matvii Diadkov,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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For that reason, scientists consider GRBs something of an enigma.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
29 July 2025
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The seventh planet from the Sun, it's been something of an enigma ever since it was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel in 1731.—
David Szondy
July 27,
New Atlas,
27 July 2025
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Both squeeze some juice out of the incongruity of teenagers suddenly thrust into adult responsibilities.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
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Already concerned about the incongruity of having a comic yukking it up with what was happening with the AP and other outlets, the WHCA scrapped her.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Paradox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paradox. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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