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Six example sentences with paradoxical, each labelled with its topic.
It sounds paradoxical, yet people asked to describe their worry in detail usually report feeling calmer afterward.
Psychology
Saving more can be paradoxical during a downturn, because every household cutting back shrinks the income of its neighbors.
Economics
Rest days have a paradoxical effect: the runner who trains less this week often races faster the next.
Fitness
Some sedatives have a paradoxical effect on young children, leaving them more excited rather than calmer.
Medicine
The claim that we are freest when bound by rules sounds paradoxical, yet Rousseau defended it for a whole book.
Philosophy
It seems paradoxical that the longer mountain road is faster, but the short route has forty hairpin bends.
Travel
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