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The firm calls this the inference paradox: Cheaper AI tokens invite more elaborate work, rather than smaller bills.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

Experts believe this is the paradox at the heart of India's digital transformation: the country is becoming an internet and data-centre powerhouse without controlling enough of the physical infrastructure that connects it to the world.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The contradiction between a relatively warm early Earth and a cooler, dimmer Sun is known as the Faint Young Sun paradox.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

So another possible explanation for the apparent paradox over older politicians is that age, at least by itself, isn’t really what voters are worried about.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026

A zero in the other great modern theory—relativity—creates another paradox: the infinite nothing of the black hole.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

"Slavery and segregation have been strange paradoxes in a nation founded on the principle that all men are created equal."

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

It is a long-held tenet of the theater that the most interesting characters, like the most interesting people, are defined by their schisms and paradoxes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Mr. Miles tackles the brutal paradoxes of ecological conservation with unexpected comedic flair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Time-travel paradoxes rest on the false premise that events exist as revisitable locations.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025

Zero clashed with one of the central tenets of Western philosophy, a dictum whose roots were in the number-philosophy of Pythagoras and whose importance came from the paradoxes of Zeno.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife