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Beneath the absurdity and punchlines lies a serious critique of how violence is packaged, sold, and consumed in American media.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025 -
During the performance that shot her to fame earlier this month, Fan laid bare the absurdity facing many victims of domestic violence in the country.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
27 July 2025
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This scenario is the business travel paradox: your most eager travelers are often your most vulnerable.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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To settle the potato paradox, Zhang and his colleagues amassed more than 120 genomes from dozens of species spanning the potato, tomato, and Etuberosum groups and tried to piece together a narrative.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
31 July 2025
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Already concerned about the incongruity of having a comic yukking it up with what was happening with the AP and other outlets, the WHCA scrapped her.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
27 Apr. 2025
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Kirby’s incongruity is terrifying, so said someone much wiser than me.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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Fellow Redditors commented on the situation, noting the irony of the women's behavior.—
Michael Nied,
People.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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The irony is that diversity and performance are positively correlated, not contradictory.—
Heather Price,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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China’s overall lean toward Russia obscures the challenges and contradictions in Beijing’s relationship with Moscow.—
Da Wei,
Foreign Affairs,
29 July 2025
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The story sees Lila, a young Korean-Argentinian girl, navigating the contradictions of her identity and trying to find her place in the world.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
29 July 2025
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There are some historical peculiarities that even patient scholarship cannot fully explain.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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The artist continues to interrogate the interplay between image and text in culture today –– illustrating the persistent dominance of advertising, as well as the peculiarities of newer phenomena, such as memes.—
Megan Williams,
CNN Money,
18 July 2025
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Attorney Chad Dunn, who is representing a group of plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said the dichotomy is evidence of political opportunism.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
14 July 2025
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Take Jean-Michel Basquiat for model, whose exploration of a repertoire of ideas was firmly rooted in ‘suggestive dichotomies’ between 1980s NYC and a panoply of heroic figures, saints, and kings that evoked Catholic Haitian traditions.—
Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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“Illogicality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illogicality. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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