paradoxical
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At a time when nostalgia for the ’90s is seemingly everywhere, “My Bad” places the decade into context, including its paradoxical freedoms and oppressions, with the intimate, funny rough language of your freakiest, funnest bestie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Much of the nation is in a paradoxical state.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
Jorge Luis Borges, for instance, who began translating Kafka in 1938, was attracted to the labyrinthine nature of the stories, which, Ms. Hruska writes, combine the paradoxical qualities of “brevity and endlessness.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
But, he said, there was a paradoxical element of hope in the fact that white sharks were turning up for sale.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Every time the calculations were properly done, the paradoxical answer emerged that the crystals could not grow at anywhere near the observed rates.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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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