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[ adverb ] in a paradoxical manner

Examples

"paradoxically, ice ages seem to occur when the sun gets hotter"

Used in print

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

Yet paradoxically my liberal friends continue to view Jefferson as one of their patron_saints .

(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)

Professionally a lawyer , that_is_to_say associated with dignity , reserve , discipline , with much that is essentially middle-class , he is compelled by an impossible love to exhibit himself dressed_up , disguised - that_is , paradoxically , revealed - as a child , and , worse , as a whore masquerading as a child .

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

The actual surface becomes both ground and background , and it turns_out - suddenly and paradoxically - that the only place left for a three-dimensional illusion is in_front of , upon , the surface .

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