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
And that’s the paradox of the show.
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
From Afghan women wielding mobile phones against Taliban rule, to Gaza’s first para-cycling team, and Iran’s cosmetic industry paradox, urgent portraits of resilience and survival dominated pitches at the 21st Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-Production Forum, part of the San Sebastián Festival.
—Callum McLennan, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
Protecting the paradox 'Slavery was in America's first White House.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
The paradox was obvious because the facilities stockpiled sodium-sulfate waste while importing caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and other reagents by tanker load.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
From Afghan women wielding mobile phones against Taliban rule, to Gaza’s first para-cycling team, and Iran’s cosmetic industry paradox, urgent portraits of resilience and survival dominated pitches at the 21st Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-Production Forum, part of the San Sebastián Festival.
—Callum McLennan, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
Protecting the paradox 'Slavery was in America's first White House.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
The paradox was obvious because the facilities stockpiled sodium-sulfate waste while importing caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and other reagents by tanker load.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for paradox
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paradox
Noun
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There should be no dichotomy here.—
Rick Tumlinson,
Space.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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That dichotomy was really interesting to me.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The prolonged legal proceedings moved about 100 miles northeast to Kenton County because the mystery surrounding Brenda Sue Schaefer's death had become a high-profile case in Louisville.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Oct. 2025
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According to Srebnick’s book, the newspapers at the time breathlessly reported her safe return, but the incident fed public speculation about the mysteries of her private life.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Safdie perceptively locates the protagonist’s troubling inner contradictions—the atavistic fury that drives him to compete and the intense self-control that competition demands—but dramatizes such outer crises as opioid addiction and conflict with his girlfriend (Emily Blunt) only schematically.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Knicks are a contradiction.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Biggest enigma — Philadelphia Eagles Jalen Hurts is 27th in passing yardage.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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To voters, Starmer remains an enigma.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Some of the hangars are used as soundstages, and Linklater pointed out an old air-traffic-control tower, jutting, with pleasing retro-futurist incongruity, out of a public plaza.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
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So the incongruity might be coming from a place of the myth of meritocracy.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Paradox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paradox. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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