paradoxes
Example Sentences
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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
A book club is filled with a hundred little paradoxes: They want to learn but not be lectured to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Mr. Miles tackles the brutal paradoxes of ecological conservation with unexpected comedic flair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Time-travel paradoxes rest on the false premise that events exist as revisitable locations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
This was a shocking conclusion, but the indivisible kernels of matter in atomic theory got around the problem of Zeno’s paradoxes.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
