paradox
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The case highlights a paradox: while Europe's armies are bolstering their protection against espionage and hybrid threats, the vehicles they use can collect sensitive information.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Stupnikov understood a central paradox of his situation: The safest place for turncoats like him was in Ukraine—close to the troops and country they left behind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
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
She scribbles a little, and I look in my notebook at my paradox that I already sent to Ms. Steck via e-mail.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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
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
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
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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