PARADOX


Meaning of PARADOX in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

apparent

Can some one explain this apparent paradox please?

Among the multiple causes of this apparent paradox , one is of outstanding importance.

No easy answers came and there were many apparent paradoxes .

Fortunately, a way out of this apparent paradox exists.

The explanation for this apparent paradox is provided by the distinction between the subjective and the objective role of historical figures.

Then, she told me, she remembered previous times when an apparent paradox had puzzled her.

Baldwin was crucial to this apparent paradox , both objectively and subjectively.

I start from an apparent paradox .

central

These stories illustrate the central paradox of town-country relations.

The examples by Duchamp and Malevich provide also an indication of a central paradox within modernism.

The agony and the ecstasy of the eleventh-hour reprieve illustrated the central paradox of Calvinism.

curious

It is a curious paradox that evolution and gradual change were linked with revolution and sudden change.

It is a curious paradox , that we should half mistrust the police in this way.

It is a curious paradox that often the most spectacularly successful and numerous organisms are also those with a finite geological record.

Capitalist modes of production, he says, are marked by a curious paradox .

great

This, of course, was the great paradox of Thatcherism.

In that vision lies the great paradox of modern life.

In a life filled with strange inconsistencies, perhaps that's the greatest paradox of all.

■ VERB

explain

Economics partly explains the paradox - capitalist boom in the west, quickening collapse in the east.

To explain this paradox , we must revisit the dawn of the modern marketing age.

Can some one explain this apparent paradox please?

To explain this seeming paradox , let me refer you to a drawing now found in many introductory psychology textbooks.

resolve

We can use the computer model to resolve the paradox , and learn something about real evolution in the process.

How, then, do we resolve the paradox ?

How shall we resolve this paradox of the two ways of looking at life?

Yet they could not resolve the paradox that their revolutionary aims resulted in goods that only wealthy people could afford.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Isn't it a paradox that the airline with the lowest fares is the one with the most customer satisfaction?

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

Being defined in terms of tension or paradox , ambiguity's potential diversity was restored to some sort of unitary wholeness.

Fortunately, a way out of this apparent paradox exists.

It is this paradox , according to Brooks, that is the main point of the poem.

Solving the infective dose paradox might lead to new strategies for elimination of this preventable pneumonia.

The agony and the ecstasy of the eleventh-hour reprieve illustrated the central paradox of Calvinism.

The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke.

The recent attacks, in which 17 people were killed and 28 injured, are a paradox for many.

To explain this seeming paradox , let me refer you to a drawing now found in many introductory psychology textbooks.

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