Sample Sentences for
paradox
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  • The idea that slowing down can help you get more done is a common paradox in productivity advice.
    paradox = something that seems contradictory but is true
  • Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.  (source)
    paradoxes = situations that seem impossible because parts of them seem to contradict each other
  • It is perhaps a paradox that without the abuse of my past, I might not be what I am today.  (source)
    paradox = a surprising situation because parts of it seem to contradict each other
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  • I suppose it is a bit of a paradox.  (source)
    paradox = a situation that is surprising because parts of it seem to contradict each other
  • But the more I inspected this American image, the less sure I became of what it is. It appeared to me increasingly paradoxical,  (source)
    paradoxical = a situation or statement that seems impossible because parts of it seem to contradict each other
  • This was another of the paradoxes of Vught.†  (source)
  • Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal.†  (source)
  • And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.  (source)
    paradox = a situation that is surprising because parts of it seem to contradict each other
  • Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws.  (source)
  • But because normals do not have a second soul, they cannot handle a time loop's inherent paradoxes, and their brains turn to mush.†  (source)
  • And yet, paradoxically, it sounded weaker, slurred, petulant ...as if he were drunk.†  (source)
  • There are roots to the tongue. You've seen them, and if you put your finger in your mouth you can feel them, but you can't feel them with the tongue. It's a paradox.  (source)
    paradox = a situation that is true but is surprising because parts of it seem to contradict each other
  • A: Human beings are mysterious and paradoxical.†  (source)
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