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paradoxes



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Ms. Williams delights in the paradoxes of butterfly evolution, including monarch caterpillars’ calibrated resistance to milkweed toxins.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

"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

Recognizing the categorical difference between occurrence and existence resolves these paradoxes.

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

“The very strange situation was that by coming nearer and nearer to the solution,” reflected the promising young German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg, “the paradoxes became worse and worse.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik



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