paradoxical
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Paradoxical suppression occurs when an effort to restrain a thought, feeling, or behavior produces the opposite effect, intensifying rather than diminishing it.
From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025
Paradoxical indeed, as one among his detail asks if I will take a selfie with him.
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2016
Paradoxical /par-uh-DOK-si-kuhl/ adjective: having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
From Time • Jul. 27, 2015
Paradoxical as it seems, working with newfangled technology and old-fashioned pep talks Mr. Harrell makes singers sound even more like themselves.
From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2012
Paradoxical as the statement seems, defeat contains brighter prospects for her than victory.
From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Wood, Eric Fisher
Vocabulary lists containing paradoxical
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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Opposites Attract
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
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