paradox
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The reasons behind this paradox aren’t fully understood, but several mechanisms may offer an explanation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
That’s the paradox at the center of this week’s column, and I owe it to a conversation with Mark Sobel, a former senior U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
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
But that conclusion presents a paradox: such diseases could never have existed before then!
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
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
Recognizing the categorical difference between occurrence and existence resolves these paradoxes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 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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