paradoxical
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The character design, which borrows from anime, is elegant and a little odd — hands and feet are drawn tiny, which has the paradoxical effect of drawing your attention, making them more expressive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
On an obscure research assignment, the narrator travels to the Greek island of Hydra to meet Theódoros Apostolakis, who has created a paradoxical museum for lost things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
However paradoxical it may seem, it has a directly measurable effect on the atomic cloud that the photon traverses.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
It's a paradoxical situation: one superstar, past his peak but still loved; another, at the top of his game but still waiting for the same level of affection.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Theoretical breakthrough that it was, complementarity did nothing to resolve the paradoxical results emanating from the atomic nucleus.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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