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

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

Simien: “The more specifically Black characters can live in paradoxes, the more human we are.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 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