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antinomy

noun

Definition of antinomy

as in mystery

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Recent Examples of antinomy Mapping today’s red-blue conflict on the Jamestown-Plymouth antinomy of four centuries ago can’t help seeming extremely forced. — James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026 The antinomy produces statements that can be neither false nor true. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024 The antinomies of male and female, and the product of their union, seem very much on his mind during this period. — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023 The most recent developments in the Russian-Ukrainian war call forth similar antinomies. — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023

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Noun

But genuinely funny moments are rare, badly outnumbered by done-to-death musings regarding the mysteries of being alive and torturous melodramatic moments in which Klara dully absorbs the severity of Josie’s illness and Chrissy’s sorrow.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Genres run from crime thrillers and detective mysteries to folklore horror, social and courtroom drama, and romance.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of mystery

Noun

With Simmons still back on the ramp, largely remaining — to borrow from Winston Churchill — a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026
The fundamental problem exposed by the latest court fight is that no one has a solution to the riddle of apportionment.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of riddle

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With Simmons still back on the ramp, largely remaining — to borrow from Winston Churchill — a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026
The enigma of comets and asteroids lured the world’s space agencies into funding a series of robotic probes to study them.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of enigma

Noun

However, Raman's fractured relationship with the DSA has become the defining paradox of her candidacy here in LA.

— Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026
This is the paradox that Condorcet, a passionate believer in democracy, encountered in the late 18th century.

— Alex Stone, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026

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