paradoxes

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"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

Other such paradoxes will strike closer to home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Recognizing the categorical difference between occurrence and existence resolves these paradoxes.

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

Rowing is, in a number of ways, a sport of fundamental paradoxes.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown