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paradoxically

[ par-uh-dok-sik-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a self-contradictory or seemingly self-contradictory way:

    Paradoxically, the more we know, the more we identify an increasing number of questions to which we as yet have no answers.



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Other Words From

  • non·par·a·dox·i·cal·ly adverb
  • ul·tra·par·a·dox·i·cal·ly adverb
  • un·par·a·dox·i·cal·ly adverb
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Example Sentences

In “Free Guy,” Reynolds takes center stage as a bank teller in an online game who paradoxically develops autonomy only after he realizes — shades of “The Matrix” — that he has no autonomy.

The vaccine appears to boost immunity in some situations, but paradoxically, BCG may also calm an overactive immune system.

Economists initially observed that, somewhat paradoxically, economic growth did not reliably increase a country’s happiness.

That’s especially true given that some researchers think that constantly trying to avoid boredom paradoxically makes you more bored.

Bush argues that Goths’ success in aging has a lot to do with their ability to juggle opposing, seemingly paradoxical energies.

Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment.

That reactivity paradoxically is what makes its sudden coming and going mysterious.

Paradoxically, it will increase the risk that Ebola will spread in those countries and to other countries.

Paradoxically, it was never proved that Hart and Rice had sex.

Paradoxically, that strength has put us into a very vulnerable position.

Bierce, paradoxically, combined the bizarre in substance, the severely restrained and compressed in form.

"I'm too Irish for that," he said, rather paradoxically, I thought.

So the joy that the singer gave out went to gladden the world, and that which she gave, paradoxically enough, remained with her.

Disintegration itself—in a paradoxically pathetic attempt at reconstruction—had built Glendale.

Sometimes, in those conversations, she was somewhat paradoxically impelled to defend her sister.

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