paradox

In a sentence

Six example sentences with paradox, each labelled with its topic.

• The barber who shaves everyone who does not shave himself is the classic paradox students meet in their first logic seminar.

  Philosophy

• Offering a small payment made volunteers work less, a paradox that survived every attempt to explain it away as chance.

  Psychology

• Protecting the forest raised its value so much that owners began selling it, a paradox the trust had not anticipated.

  Environment

• The twin paradox says a traveler returns younger than the sibling who stayed, and clocks flown on jets confirm the effect.

  Science

• The diamond and water paradox asks why the useless stone costs more than the liquid nobody can live without.

  Economics

• The novel's central paradox is a rule that lets airmen go home only if they are sane enough to want to.

  Literature

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains paradox. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• elimination
• evolution
• occurrence
• pragmatic
• articulate
• conceive
• irrational
• virtually
• ethic
• analogous
• equation
• extract