(n.) A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(2) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(3) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(4) Our findings may hold the key to understanding the apparent paradox that although neuroleptics presumably induce their therapeutic actions in disorders such as Tourette syndrome and schizophrenia as well as their parkinsonian effects by blocking dopamine receptors, this antagonism occurs immediately while behavioral changes often require weeks for maximal development.
(5) Urinary output paradoxically increased during the first day following starvation, but fell dramatically thereafter.
(6) Transient "paradoxical" increase of ST segment elevation followed by rapid falling was observed in 4 patients.
(7) The duration of paradoxical sleep was particularly increased resembling the effects of benzodiazepines.
(8) Comparing measurements of base line and 30 and 60% of Pmmax indicated that the degree of asynchrony, paradox, and variation in compartmental contribution were significantly related to the level of the load; significant abnormalities were observed at even 30% of Pmmax, a target pressure that can be sustained indefinitely.
(9) Nitroprusside, which is the drug of choice for treating this "paradoxical hypertension," was not readily available.
(10) We have attempted to investigate a relationship between the paradoxical GH secretion with the abnormal glucose tolerance test present in some cases of acromegaly.
(11) Allen Mathies, president and chief executive officer at Huntington Memorial Hospital, cited a paradoxical side effect stemming from the success of his hospital's geriatric outreach programs.
(12) Paradoxical bronchoconstriction was not observed when salbutamol was diluted with water.
(13) Similar paradoxes bedevilled all the other chief themes.
(14) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
(15) In addition, despite this overall protective effect, zinc paradoxically increased the glutamate-induced destruction of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase (NADPH-d)-containing neurons, a subpopulation that was shown in the preceding paper (Koh and Choi, 1988) to exhibit resistance to NMDA receptor-mediated neurotoxicity, and vulnerability to non-NMDA receptor-mediated neurotoxicity.
(16) Photograph: YouTube Formation is a protest and celebration, concerned with and in love with the very particular paradox of the black American identity and experience.
(17) Paradoxical embolus to the right coronary artery was demonstrated premorbidly and at autopsy.
(18) A sample of physician-referred chronic insomniacs was randomly allocated to either progressive relaxation, stimulus control, paradoxical intention, placebo or no treatment conditions.
(19) There was no difference between paradox and normal hearts in calcium stimulated ATPase activity in the SR.
(20) The apparent paradox in these results is correlated with different effects of the two maneuvers on left atrial pressure.
Shocker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Van Deusen, an analyst with Tigress Financial Partners, said: “They did say they would be cutting jobs, but the magnitude of them is definitely a shocker.” A number of global oil companies such as BP and ConocoPhillips have cut jobs after a fall of nearly 60% in oil prices over the past six months.
(2) The second shocker also showcased the Globes’s more offbeat taste: two big wins (best comedy series, best actor for Donald Glover) for Atlanta, about the city’s rap scene.
(3) Anyway, take it from me, the Arsenal man is having another shocker.
(4) Next came the enfant terrible of Portnoy's Complaint (1969), the late-60s comic sensation, dubbed "a wild blue shocker" by Life magazine.
(5) Hardly a week passes without Hodge's committee uncovering some new pay shocker that the Treasury has ignored.
(6) For your amazing, illustrious career of defying stereotypes – and most of all, for showing how to best use Twitter and shut up trolls who still have not learned that – shocker!
(7) Marcelo has been caught out of position time and again and Maicon and Dante are both having the mother of all shockers: missing some tackles and lunging carelessly into others.
(8) But before Argo, Affleck had pretty much had to retire from being a frontline movie star because he almost without exception ensured any movie's eternal epithet would be "the Ben Affleck shocker — ".
(9) ::goes to make coffee:: Oh look, what a shocker, Gonzalez strikes out Adam Wainwright.
(10) Though in evident pain, García was not seriously injured and was able to continue, yet Whelan's unpunished tackle was much more of a shocker than the recent one involving Kompany that hurt no one and led to the Manchester City captain being dismissed.
(11) The Wichita State Shockers , who surprisingly made the Final Four last year, won’t be flying under the radar this time around as the still-undefeated Shockers top the Midwest Region with a shock- er, um, impressive 34-0 record.
(12) Brian Murphy, head of lending at mortgage broker Mortgage Advice Bureau, said: "September's figures are a shocker – down on August, usually the quietest month of the year, down on last September when we were still in the grips of recession, and no sign of the traditional post-summer bounce in mortgage activity, which doesn't bode well for the rest of the year and early 2011."
(13) You can sit down and say, ‘I’ve had a shocker of a day.’ People do want to help.” She spends a lot of her time now visiting schools because – wait for it – she is writing a book about “character education”.
(14) He could not rely on it to go right, and was something of a scatter gun, combining the odd brilliant throw with a series of shockers that threatened anyone unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity of the infield.
(15) PwC's 2010 study in econometrics also came up with this shocker: "England remain a good bet for reaching the quarter-finals."
(16) The AEC, it must be said, has had a shocker of a year.
(17) Civil servants next: Porritt says working in Whitehall after years in business and non-governmental organisation groups such as Friends of the Earth and Forum for the Future has been a real shocker.
(18) Indeed, last week he brought forth some shockers of his own.
(19) Children's contained fewer shockers than last time , though Match of the Day might be in the relegation zone with a 20% fall.
(20) "Although in the this tournament, one never knows..." He's on three or more goals on this match Richard, he may yet be smiling ... 79 min Arshavin, who has had a shocker tonight, has a rare touch on the ball ... but his cross goes about 10 yards over Pavlyuchenko.