paradoxes

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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

Fast fashion — items that move from concept to storefront availability in a matter of weeks — is one of the great paradoxes in retail, especially among younger consumers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024

I write out a whole list of other paradoxes until I come to the one I most want to argue.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King