paradoxical
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Rather than ban the new technology, Estonia mounted a high-stakes and seemingly paradoxical intervention, distributing free chatbots to nearly 20,000 students earlier this year and rethinking pedagogical methods.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Much of the nation is in a paradoxical state.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
That creates a paradoxical risk for technology that investors and regulators will need to prepare for.
From Barron's • May 3, 2026
Former U.K. and Canada central banker White frets about the paradoxical relationship in the U.S. between the administration of Donald Trump and the dollar.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026
Every time the calculations were properly done, the paradoxical answer emerged that the crystals could not grow at anywhere near the observed rates.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Vocabulary lists containing paradoxical
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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Opposites Attract
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
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