paradox

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The three most successful drivers in Formula 1 summed up the conflict and paradox at the heart of the sport's new look after a Chinese Grand Prix that showed off its best and worst sides.

From BBC

“It’s a paradox that you can use all kinds of internet services in most of the country,” said Jonny Tickle, a British national living in Moscow.

From The Wall Street Journal

Scientists call this puzzling pattern the "centromere paradox."

From Science Daily

He’s always been a paradox: a source of endless charisma about whom it’s virtually impossible to discern anything concrete.

From Los Angeles Times

Perhaps the greatest paradox about understanding “the woods” is that so many who enjoy it, or seem to enjoy it, spend most of their time trying to kill parts of it.

From Literature