antinomy

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Recent Examples of antinomy Unlike Hilbert’s hotel and the birthday paradox, Russell’s antinomy is not a result that merely eludes our intuition. Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024 The antinomies of male and female, and the product of their union, seem very much on his mind during this period. Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023 The great Russian sociologist Yuri Levada theorized that antinomies—pairs of mutually exclusive beliefs—were key to understanding the Soviet totalitarian mentality. Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023 By obliterating Twitter’s attempts at resolving the irreconcilable antinomy between good and bad virality, Musk has only ensured that the Chinese government can engage in viral spam to defeat viral attempts at amplifying domestic protests of CCP’s zero-Covid biosecurity regime. WIRED, 1 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antinomy
Noun
  • Some scholars countered that Venusian volcanoes could have produced phosphine; others said that the measurements were dubious, and the mystery gas wasn’t phosphine.
    David W. Brown, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The music feels like a murder mystery caper, propelled by urgency yet never losing its lightness.
    Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Here, The Athletic attempts to unravel the Ballon d’Or riddle by ranking the top 10 contenders.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
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    Jayla Webb, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over time, the fate of the footage has become one of the biggest enigmas in Hollywood history.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • More Michael Owens/Getty Images Leonard has always been regarded as an enigma because of his chronic injury problems and his extremely introverted (and some would say odd) personality.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • How To Play Wordle Wordle is a daily word puzzle game where your goal is to guess a hidden five-letter word in six tries or fewer.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This gets to the heart of a paradox in American politics.
    John J. Donohue, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This paradox—seeing the system as rigged but loath to fall into the NPC pit—is emerging as a defining Gen Z quality.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Antinomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antinomy. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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