paradox
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Sittenfeld wrote about a paradox of his time in prison: It gave him a break from the intrusive pull of his iPhone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
It was to address this paradox that the so-called Buddhist Lent campaign began in 2003, and last year it claimed more than eight million adherents.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
In California, that looks like a paradox: The state has both a shrinking number of political battlegrounds and a handful of critical races that could help decide which party controls the House.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The "obesity paradox" refers to findings suggesting that people living with obesity may, under certain circumstances, have lower mortality rates than people with a BMI in the normal range.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
That paradox developed because human population densities rose slightly more steeply than did the availability of food.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
"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
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
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 think perhaps Liza accepted the world as she accepted the Bible, with all of its paradoxes and its reverses.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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