paradox
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"Sleep may appear peaceful, but the brain is highly active -- especially when dreaming. We were intrigued by this paradox, and wanted to look into the scientific basis behind why dreaming is somehow tiring."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
The firm calls this the inference paradox: Cheaper AI tokens invite more elaborate work, rather than smaller bills.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
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 paradox helps explain why U.S. refinery operators that are making record profits in the midst of historic fuel supply disruptions in the Middle East, Russia and China have no plans to expand their fleet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Perhaps the greatest paradox about understanding “the woods” is that so many who enjoy it, or seem to enjoy it, spend most of their time trying to kill parts of it.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
"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
Other such paradoxes will strike closer to home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Recognizing the categorical difference between occurrence and existence resolves these paradoxes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
Zero clashed with one of the central tenets of Western philosophy, a dictum whose roots were in the number-philosophy of Pythagoras and whose importance came from the paradoxes of Zeno.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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