paradox
This controversy itself reflects the paradoxical nature of the global economy.
The president has made seemingly paradoxical statements on the issue.
Their response may seem paradoxical.

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paradoxical
For another, in a new world dominated by service and information economies, globalization engenders a seemingly paradoxical valuing of community and authenticity.
The second group comprised 68 patients with a patent oval foramen and had experienced transient ischemic attacks or cerebral infarctions after presumed paradoxical embolism.
It is important to note that complete closure was achieved in all patients with patent oval foramen after presumed paradoxical embolism.
The theist with standard beliefs about creation and conservation must surely think that (10) reflects the way things are and (9) is paradoxical.
That is to say, the paradoxical performances that may constitute the paradoxical primate will require paradoxical strategies of analysis.
These paradoxical situations point to the danger of being carried away by smart-home technology without commensurate attention to the resident's mobility restrictions.
It produces a paradoxical inversion of linguistic expectations.
Interestingly, as the essays in this collection chronicle, the backpacker's putative desire to distance oneself from the nation-state has had, perhaps, paradoxical effects.
When viewed in the light of recent molecular studies and emerging paradigms of tumour histogenesis and progression, this baffling class of tumours seems less paradoxical.
This placed individuals in a paradoxical position : they were vulnerable to exploitation, but protest or complaint risked undermining their position even further.
The view asserted in the text might seem to be paradoxical.
At a more general level, a feature common to both historical and present-day labour migration by children seems to be its paradoxical nature.
Such paradoxical claim not so reveals the imperfection of our knowledge as much as the presence of some scientific misunderstandings and prejudices.
At the end of the twentieth century, concern for food poverty is both paradoxical and rational.
In specular logic, aural contradicts spectacle, positioning itself as a paradoxical other.
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