paradoxEnglishOxford American Thesaurusparadox noun the apparent paradox of simultaneous unemployment and skilled-labor shortages: contradiction, contradiction in terms, self-contradiction, inconsistency, incongruity, anomaly, conflict; absurdity, oddity, enigma, puzzle, mystery, conundrum; rare oxymoron, antinomy.
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