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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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Mamdani emerged from this shroud of mystery triumphant, posting a photograph on X of himself, firmly straight-faced, standing alongside the grinning President.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
5 Mar. 2026
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The internet is undoubtedly already running through every possible male celebrity candidate, but for now, this one remains a mystery.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The riddle that is Roki Sasaki does not look any easier to solve after his second spring start on Tuesday.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
4 Mar. 2026
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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
Noun
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The labor market has been its own enigma.—
Brian Cheung,
NBC news,
5 Mar. 2026
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In the 1990s and early ’00s, Bill Callahan was an enigma.—
Mark Richardson,
Pitchfork,
2 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This puzzle piece challenges our biases about who deserves to be in a classroom and confronts the notion that women should focus solely on child rearing not their education.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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Occasionally, that puzzle produces happy accidents.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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That’s the strange paradox of collapses in sports.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2026
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The answer is time, which, in a paradox worthy of his work with Shawn, Gregory both does and doesn’t have.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Antinomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antinomy. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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