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Definition
a situation or statement that may be true but is surprising or seems impossible because parts of it seem to contradict each other
- But the paradox of this world where in real life a respectable woman could hardly show her face alone in the street, and yet on the stage woman equals or surpasses man, has never been satisfactorily explained.3 (14% in)
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