paradox
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For smaller biotechs, this dynamic creates a paradox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The futile paradox of these so-called live-action adaptations is they require a tsunami of pixels to surround actual human performers with everything audiences adored the first time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
LONG: It’s what I’d call the declining public-share paradox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
If the idea proves correct, the black hole information paradox may not require a revision of quantum mechanics after all.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
“Your Handdara fascinates me, Harth, but now and then I wonder if it isn’t simply paradox developed into a way of life....”
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"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
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
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
There seem to be two possible resolutions to the paradoxes posed by time travel.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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