paradoxes
Example Sentences
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Political observers also wonder whether the book could shed light on the paradoxes of the Congress-led government between 2004 and 2014.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Ms. Williams delights in the paradoxes of butterfly evolution, including monarch caterpillars’ calibrated resistance to milkweed toxins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Time-travel paradoxes rest on the false premise that events exist as revisitable locations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
Leo highlighted the "outrageous paradoxes" by which enormous amounts of food go wasted in the world "while multitudes of people scramble to find something in the garbage to put in their mouths".
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
For example, Penelope had never before realized how difficult it was to explain the logic behind such common household paradoxes as: Standing on the floor is perfectly correct; standing upon the loveseat is not.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
