paradoxical
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The market’s more recent angst, however, is somewhat paradoxical.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
Former U.K. and Canada central banker White frets about the paradoxical relationship in the U.S. between the administration of Donald Trump and the dollar.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026
Matthiessen was this way, too, and his dizzying life and brilliantly varied work were the paradoxical outcomes of what was, as he put it, his “dream of simplicity.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
This result is clearly paradoxical for two reasons.
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025
Moreover, the social practice which we label ‘discovery’ can be confused, contradictory and paradoxical: it really is not always obvious who made a discovery or when they made it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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