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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.
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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
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
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What if the human heart, with all its competing emotions and desires, were mystery enough?—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 Feb. 2026
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As the story shifts to Birdy, a reclusive woman who inherited the same house months earlier and uncovered a clinic that predicts death dates, their lives collide in a twisting mystery where identity, secrets, and survival hang in the balance.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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LeetCode is a training platform for the kind of algorithmic riddles that usually crop up in interviews for big tech companies.—
Sam Kriss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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All types of lanterns are lighted throughout the streets, and poems and riddles are often written for entertainment.—
Jennifer Borresen,
USA Today,
15 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Along with the gaps in knowledge, some deeper enigma about La Tour is preserved, which feels appropriate for an artist for whom silence, uncertainty, and restraint were central subjects.—
Nicole Krauss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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In this documentary about the affair that led to her birth, Polley incorporates home movie footage — some authentic, some staged — and interviews with different family members to plumb the depths of a woman who remains, even to those who knew her, something of an enigma.—
Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Feb. 2026
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Kalo and Vatu alternated with the leadm but Kalo made it to the puzzle first.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Feb. 2026
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Dreaming of solutions In this new study, to explore whether explicitly dreaming about a problem can help people find solutions to it, Paller, Konkoly, and their colleagues had 20 subjects work on a set of logic puzzles.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
26 Feb. 2026
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The answer to this longevity paradox is less about our understanding of aging biology or our ability to identify potential therapies, but more about how to get promising drugs safely to people.—
Andrew S. Brack,
Time,
26 Feb. 2026
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The agency noted a troubling paradox in recent policy shifts.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Antinomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antinomy. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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