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paradoxes

NOUN

contradiction, puzzle

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absurdity ambiguity anomaly enigma inconsistency mystery oddity

STRONG

catch error mistake nonsense opposite reverse

WEAK

catch-22

Antonyms

STRONGEST

normality regularity standard usualness

STRONG

accuracy certainty correction same success truth understanding

Example Sentences

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One of the paradoxes of Diamond’s career is that his flashy showman reputation is built on songs that can be almost comically humble in their imagery.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 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

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

And by rejecting zero and infinity, Aristotle explained away Zeno’s paradoxes.

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