paradox
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When I mention this paradox, a grin spreads across his face.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The firm calls this the inference paradox: Cheaper AI tokens invite more elaborate work, rather than smaller bills.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
So another possible explanation for the apparent paradox over older politicians is that age, at least by itself, isn’t really what voters are worried about.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
The contradiction between a relatively warm early Earth and a cooler, dimmer Sun is known as the Faint Young Sun paradox.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
To capture this apparent paradox, Granovetter coined a marvelous phrase: the strength of weak ties.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
"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
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
Perhaps tomorrow someone will invent a theory consistent with everything else we know that circumvents paradoxes on such matters as simultaneity, avoids privileged reference frames and still permits travel faster than light.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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