apparent paradox
collocation in Englishmeaningsofapparentandparadox
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apparent
adjective
uk/əˈpær.ənt/us/əˈper.ənt/
able to be seen ...
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paradox
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈpær.ə.dɒks/us/ˈper.ə.dɑːks/
a situation or statement that seems impossible or is difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts ...
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That said, they, and the empirical literature on the political effects of conversation discussed in the introduction, also share anapparentparadox.
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Thisapparentparadoxcan be solved by abandoning the 1-1 match.
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Theapparentparadoxbetween liberal policies and the expansion of pension funds has been explained in a number of ways.
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Based on other research, we can currently suggest one solution to thisapparentparadox.
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I have hypothesized that endogenous social norms may help explain thisapparentparadox.
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But thisapparentparadoxbecomes clear once the roles of other institutions are considered.
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The differences between the political and institutional contexts producing these outcomes are crucial to understanding thisapparentparadox.
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Yet theapparentparadoxis easily resolved within the framework of belief/desire psychology.
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Reconciling ecological processes with phylogenetic patterns: theapparentparadoxof plant-pollinator systems.
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The notion of increased random activity or noise in specific thalamic nuclei may explain thisapparentparadox.
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Thisapparentparadoxcould be explained by differential lodging across the treatments.
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I suspect that part of the solution to thisapparentparadoxmay lie in cleanly discriminating between risk of infection and prevalence of infection.
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Current applications of expert assistants face anapparentparadox: while demanding higher autonomy of the agent systems, they receive solutions aimed at reducing it!
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We are exploring thisapparentparadox, using qualitative research.
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Thisapparentparadoxwas studied using a transient growth approach.
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Thisapparentparadoxraises the question: do higher income levels imply a worse or better environment?
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The explanation for thisapparentparadoxis that higher wage municipalities simply contain a far larger volume of manufacturing employment.
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The necessary syntactic (and semantic) distinction between quantitative and genitive en is the key to thisapparentparadox.
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