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Meanings of paradox in английском
Statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently-self-contradictory conclusion.
русский
парадокс Literary device; anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight.
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Life is full of contradictions, many things do not come up to expectations. While painting is just the same, it exists between reality and illusion.
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Usage of paradox in английском
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The medical and pharmaceutical professions must no longer accept this appalling paradox.
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Objective: The tobacco paradox is a phenomenon insufficiently explained by previous studies.
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Mr Ruairi Quinn said there was a new paradox in Irish politics.
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One group of people not puzzled by the seeming paradox: political scientists.
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There is a paradox at the centre of education in this State.
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British astronomer Stephen Webb offers 50 possible explanations for this galactic paradox.
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Financial analysts are grappling with a major paradox in post-apartheid South Africa.
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The fact we could work together successfully was a typical Roman paradox.
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Those words capture perfectly the modern paradox of captaining Ireland's rugby team.
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The paradox is that it seems to work only for universal questions.
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The possibility of the paradox is in accordance with all human experience.
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The title of this work will produce the effect of a paradox.
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Perhaps the Days saw themselves as enlightened, standing aloof from that paradox.
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The odd romance which lies in the wanderer's brain welcomed the paradox.
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In Syria and Iraq, we are in the heart of that paradox.
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Stupidity is the paradox to be found most often in all-powerful Gods.
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Paradox through the time
Paradox across language varieties
Ireland
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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