paradoxically

paradox | American Dictionary

paradox
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpær·əˌdɑks/
a statement or situation that may be true but seems impossible or difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts or characteristics:
It’s a strange paradox that people who say you shouldn’t criticize the government criticize it as soon as they disagree with it.

paradoxical

adjectiveus/ˌpær·əˈdɑk·sɪ·kəl/
a paradoxical quality

paradoxically

adverbus/ˌpær·əˈdɑk·sɪ·kli/
The hot thing in video equipment is, paradoxically, sound.

Examples of paradox

paradox
For each of these three secular philosophical positions, the project of a history of science revealed a basic paradox.
The second reason, only seemingly a paradox, is the power of creative error.
In doing so, he discovers the inherent paradox of his situation.
Form is easy, meaning is hard : resolving a paradox in early child language.
The paradox was of course that a duel arose from speaking the truth.
A paradox of personal data is that both keeping the information secret and exchanging the information can be done under the banner of security.
The paradox, then, is that a certain unity can only be understood conceptually after this unity is disrupted and lost.
Several paradoxes that are challenges for those designing fallsprevention programmes emerged from the review.
Given such ' normal ' milestones, it is not clear why a general perception of language delay in young bilinguals has prevailed (recall the ' bilingual paradox ').
Paradoxes of the same form as the library paradox may be constructed for the series of natural numbers (as the above example illustrates).
The second paradox they note is that of linguistic expansion versus language compression.
This lacks even the appearance of paradox to which the critics object.
This paradox could be explained through how well the corporate privileges were upheld.
Through a questionnaire and class observations, a paradox was identified.
The ranking paradox indicates that it may be necessary to have constraint evaluations at more than one stage (cf. 2).
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Collocations withparadox

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These are words often used in combination with paradox.

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apparent paradox
I have hypothesized that endogenous social norms may help explain this apparentparadox.
curious paradox
However, the available data suggest a curious paradox.
strange paradox
This results in the strange paradox that as risks become increasingly unknowable and incalculable, formalised systems for assessing and managing risks grow.
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