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
Researchers at Tohoku University have now identified another REM sleep paradox.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
There is a strange paradox haunting healthcare investing right now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
When I mention this paradox, a grin spreads across his face.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Greece would defeat the Persians; Greek philosophy would never quite defeat Zeno—for Zeno had a paradox, a logical puzzle that seemed intractable to the reasoning of Greek philosophers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
Time-travel paradoxes rest on the false premise that events exist as revisitable locations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
One of the paradoxes of songwriting is that it can be fiendishly difficult to craft something that sounds effortlessly simple.
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
The other possible way to resolve the paradoxes of time travel might be called the alternative histories hypothesis.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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