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paradox

[par-uh-doks] / ˈpær əˌdɒks /


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The case highlights a paradox: while Europe's armies are bolstering their protection against espionage and hybrid threats, the vehicles they use can collect sensitive information.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Remember the birthday paradox from your mathematics class?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Yet very large and highly diverse ecosystems persist in nature. Our findings suggest that variation among mutually beneficial interactions, such as those between pollinators and flowers, could help explain this paradox."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

When I mention this paradox, a grin spreads across his face.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

She scribbles a little, and I look in my notebook at my paradox that I already sent to Ms. Steck via e-mail.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

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

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

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

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025

The scientific consensus that the mind consists of intricate activity in an unfathomably complex brain, which, like all organs, is vulnerable to disease and decay, suffers from none of these paradoxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

This was another of the paradoxes of Vught.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom


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