paradox

Example Sentences

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This may seem like a paradox at first blush.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

That is the paradox at the heart of the current trans-Atlantic debate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Few studies illustrate that paradox more crisply than the latest State of Working India report by Azim Premji University.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

The result is a kind of economic paradox: Households are liquid, but reluctant.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

He was living the great paradox of the early American republic: What was politically essential for the survival of the infant nation was ideologically at odds with what it claimed to stand for.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis