transcription, транскрипция: [ pærədɒks ]
( paradoxes)
1.
You describe a situation as a paradox when it involves two or more facts or qualities which seem to contradict each other.
The paradox is that the region’s most dynamic economies have the most primitive financial systems...
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2.
A paradox is a statement in which it seems that if one part of it is true, the other part of it cannot be true.
Although I’m so successful I’m really rather a failure. That’s a paradox, isn’t it?
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