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paradoxically
[par-uh-dok-sik-lee]
adverb
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.
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- nonparadoxically adverb
- ultraparadoxically adverb
- unparadoxically adverb
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of paradoxically1
Example Sentences
These two parts of yourself will always be in dialogue with one another and they’re what, somewhat paradoxically, give you the depth that defines you.
This led me to be very wary of people airily predicting that democracy was finished, and made me alive to the way that, paradoxically, such nightmares can actually damage democracy.
The game continues in “Boating Party,†which puts us inside a rowboat right up close to a top-hatted rower whose exertion will paradoxically pull the boat away from where we stand.
But while the story could conceivably be told with live actors in real settings, it would likely be so exaggerated, so satirical, that the human element, paradoxically, might get lost.
But paradoxically, Morey’s grandfather, with his expertise in distribution systems for the Asia Co., was hired by the U.S.
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