noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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apparent
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Can some one explain this apparent paradox please?
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Among the multiple causes of this apparent paradox , one is of outstanding importance.
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No easy answers came and there were many apparent paradoxes .
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Fortunately, a way out of this apparent paradox exists.
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The explanation for this apparent paradox is provided by the distinction between the subjective and the objective role of historical figures.
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Then, she told me, she remembered previous times when an apparent paradox had puzzled her.
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Baldwin was crucial to this apparent paradox , both objectively and subjectively.
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I start from an apparent paradox .
central
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These stories illustrate the central paradox of town-country relations.
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The examples by Duchamp and Malevich provide also an indication of a central paradox within modernism.
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The agony and the ecstasy of the eleventh-hour reprieve illustrated the central paradox of Calvinism.
curious
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It is a curious paradox that evolution and gradual change were linked with revolution and sudden change.
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It is a curious paradox , that we should half mistrust the police in this way.
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It is a curious paradox that often the most spectacularly successful and numerous organisms are also those with a finite geological record.
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Capitalist modes of production, he says, are marked by a curious paradox .
great
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This, of course, was the great paradox of Thatcherism.
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In that vision lies the great paradox of modern life.
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In a life filled with strange inconsistencies, perhaps that's the greatest paradox of all.
■ VERB
explain
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Economics partly explains the paradox - capitalist boom in the west, quickening collapse in the east.
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To explain this paradox , we must revisit the dawn of the modern marketing age.
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Can some one explain this apparent paradox please?
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To explain this seeming paradox , let me refer you to a drawing now found in many introductory psychology textbooks.
resolve
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We can use the computer model to resolve the paradox , and learn something about real evolution in the process.
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How, then, do we resolve the paradox ?
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How shall we resolve this paradox of the two ways of looking at life?
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Yet they could not resolve the paradox that their revolutionary aims resulted in goods that only wealthy people could afford.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Isn't it a paradox that the airline with the lowest fares is the one with the most customer satisfaction?
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There's a paradox in the fact that although we're living longer than ever before, people are more obsessed with health issues than they ever were.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Being defined in terms of tension or paradox , ambiguity's potential diversity was restored to some sort of unitary wholeness.
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Fortunately, a way out of this apparent paradox exists.
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It is this paradox , according to Brooks, that is the main point of the poem.
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Solving the infective dose paradox might lead to new strategies for elimination of this preventable pneumonia.
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The agony and the ecstasy of the eleventh-hour reprieve illustrated the central paradox of Calvinism.
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The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke.
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The recent attacks, in which 17 people were killed and 28 injured, are a paradox for many.
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To explain this seeming paradox , let me refer you to a drawing now found in many introductory psychology textbooks.