- plural of paradox.
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
Time-travel paradoxes rest on the false premise that events exist as revisitable locations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
One of the paradoxes of songwriting is that it can be fiendishly difficult to craft something that sounds effortlessly simple.
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
Lee asked, “How does Mrs. Hamilton feel about the paradoxes of the Bible?”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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