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Meanings of paradoxical in English

Seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true.

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Usage of paradoxical in English
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In three cases paradoxical side effects, probably due to lorcainide, were observed.
Pubmed
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Capital punishment exists at a paradoxical junction point of civilisation and barbarism.
BBC
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But remember, truth is always paradoxical, and always much stranger than fiction.
Relentless
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This paradoxical outcome was largely determined by its ambivalence towards Irish independence.
The Irish Times
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The common mode of meeting it is to leave it thus paradoxical.
The Nature of Goodness
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But these two conflicting and paradoxical facts must be kept in mind.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
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This is precisely the paradoxical aspect which much of our civilization presents.
A Pluralistic Universe / Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College ...
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This paradoxical judgment allows Channel 4 to keep getting away with it.
The Guardian
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The latency to the first occurrence of paradoxical sleep was also prolonged.
Pubmed
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Yet it is not one atom more paradoxical than hope or charity.
Heretics
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Hence, though late, arose the paradoxical principle and salutary practice of toleration.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part D. / From...
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Lord Melbourne used to declare, in his paradoxical manner, that Henry VIII.
The Life of Froude
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It was a paradoxical atmosphere- ablendof fraternal comradeship and mutual distrust.
The God That Failed
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There is something highly paradoxical in the modern man's relation to war.
Memories and Studies
15
Her very death had given him a paradoxical certitude of her immortality.
The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]
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This heading may seem paradoxical, but it is borne out by fact.
Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease...
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