(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.
Unanswerable
Definition:
(a.) Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) An array of polling proves that the 50p rate is unanswerably popular: at the time it was introduced, Populus reckoned that 57% of people were in favour, as against only 22% against; and a subsequent poll by YouGov found that keeping the 50p rate would appeal to 88% of uncommitted voters.
(2) Although consultation, as an activity for intervention, has achieved considerable popularity among human service professionals and figures prominently in current federal mental health legislation, a basic question still unanswerable is, "Does it work?"
(3) Bruce Crawford, the cabinet secretary for strategy in the Scottish government, said it had received an "unanswerable mandate" to stage the referendum at a time of its choosing, "while the Lib Dems lost every … seat in mainland Scotland".
(4) But voters in 31 states awarded Trump outright victory, and he steadily amassed an unanswerable lead.
(5) Right from the off, when the chancellor's wheeze emerged on the Tory conference platform, it has been sustained by two rhetorical questions that sound unanswerable – why should anyone not working bring in more than the typical £26,000 wage?
(6) If we can hit the commission's trajectory simply by staying in neutral then the case for stepping up a gear and aiming for 30% is now unanswerable."
(7) The movie might not have continued to inspire this level of devotion without its central, unanswerable mystery about the cause of the time loop; other Hollywood fantasies provide explanations for their supernatural events.
(8) From that perspective, the case for GM crops is unanswerable.
(9) Long enough for me to realise that was an unanswerable, probably insulting question.
(10) JR: I suppose the big question at this point – and maybe it's an unanswerable question – is this: would the voices have got so aggressive and frightening if you'd never told your friend, and never seen that psychiatrist, and never been diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'?
(11) "The case is now unanswerable," said Ruth Davis, chief policy adviser at Greenpeace .
(12) Throw in cuts to in-work benefits, attacks on pensions and VAT rises, and the rationale for workers to fight back is surely unanswerable.
(13) He talked of the awful uncertainty of hindsight; of the unanswerable question of whether they, his parents, could have done more to help; whether should they have intervened or left Martin, by then in his 20s, to make his own decisions.
(14) "With this resignation the argument for a general election has gone from being strong and powerful to completely unanswerable.
(15) Every question they asked of City was unanswerable during those opening 45 minutes.
(16) Like the poet said: “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” Really important photographs tell us something that we didn’t know, or didn’t want to know, or wish were not true, in urgent, unanswerable images.
(17) A cousin in Balham introduced him to jazz for the first time – the "unanswerable sound", he called it.
(18) Whether CEA saves lives is probably unanswerable, but as a skin cover it may reduce incidence of burn wound sepsis.
(19) And a spokesperson for the Sham Legion said: “The question about De Mistura’s ceasefire plan is unanswerable at the moment because of the ongoing battles in Aleppo Northern Countryside.
(20) I confess I don't dare guess at the answer to that, and it's probably unanswerable, but it's a key question to get right, for the sake of the future.