paradox
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For decades, physicists have wrestled with one of the deepest puzzles in modern science: the "black hole information paradox."
From Science Daily • Jul. 5, 2026
The paradox is that Lee’s movie is itself that conversation, its characters engaging in a series of arguments, evenhanded and empathetic, about how race affects the lives we lead in America.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
That paradox was explored by Laura Cooper, the global investment strategist at Nuveen, overseeing about $1.4 trillion in assets.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026
It speaks to the central paradox of our national origins: A revolution that repudiated allegiance to the British Constitution was nevertheless vitally inspired by that very constitutional inheritance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
And, by an unforeseeable paradox, it was my career in the church that turned out, precisely, to be my gimmick.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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