paradox
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Experts believe this is the paradox at the heart of India's digital transformation: the country is becoming an internet and data-centre powerhouse without controlling enough of the physical infrastructure that connects it to the world.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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 paradox of the AI trade was fully on display as investors continue to question the hype but keep pouring money into it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The theory neatly solves the grandfather paradox by positing separate universes in which each possible outcome exists, thereby avoiding a paradox.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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Political observers also wonder whether the book could shed light on the paradoxes of the Congress-led government between 2004 and 2014.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
One of the paradoxes of Diamond’s career is that his flashy showman reputation is built on songs that can be almost comically humble in their imagery.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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
“The very strange situation was that by coming nearer and nearer to the solution,” reflected the promising young German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg, “the paradoxes became worse and worse.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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