paradox
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Remember the birthday paradox from your mathematics class?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
As the U.S. celebrates the animal named its national mammal in 2016, it’s worth remembering a seeming paradox: Economic forces devastated the buffalo and then, more than any act of Congress, brought it back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"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
When I mention this paradox, a grin spreads across his face.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as he is unwilling to accept his past.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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
“I want all paradoxes on my desk by Friday,” Ms. Steck says.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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