paradox
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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
Here’s a paradox for you: In overwhelming numbers, voters keep telling pollsters that they want upper age limits and term limits for members of Congress.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
The paradox in the AI trade—investors are questioning the hype even as they pour money in—was everywhere at Camp Kotok, an invite-only weekend getaway for pros from across the finance world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
I stare at the blinking cursor on the computer screen, and I type in my paradox and hit Send.
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
It is a long-held tenet of the theater that the most interesting characters, like the most interesting people, are defined by their schisms and paradoxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Other such paradoxes will strike closer to home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Time-travel paradoxes rest on the false premise that events exist as revisitable locations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
These paradoxes hint that China too was once diverse, as all other populous nations still are.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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