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Verse paradox

1. The change of mentality after being in absorption and or an environment of prominent individuals
2. The action of changing your conduct and behavior due to notoriety given by individuals of higher superiority through manipulation
John: "Have you heard about Vinny? Turns out he's in the verse paradox"
by foundsaucyalt November 6, 2022
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The Newman Paradox

The way by which you can both be working and procrastinating at the same time.
Newman- I'm in my friend's room "doing work." And by doing work I mean procrastinating. And by procrastinating I mean doing work.
Jill- Good job, we'll call it the Newman Paradox.
by knightviper56 November 29, 2011
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paradox

An anomalous state of reality caused when a mage disrupts the momentum of reality with her own magickal acts.
Luther exploded with fifteen points of paradox when he botched in the umbra.
by Adam Bond December 28, 2005
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paradox

1) One exhibiting inexplicable or contradictory aspects
2) The box for the Para machine gun, except spelt wrong with a "D" instead of a "B"
1)Man, those time line paradoxs in Star Trek were awesome!
2) Have you seen my paradox? It has my recepit in it...
by The Black Plague June 27, 2003
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PaRaDoX

by PaRaDoX November 9, 2003
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Cognizanthazard Paradox

When inaccurate heuristics or cognizanthazards present a consistent problem to agents, such that experience is detrimental to performance or outcomes, yet experience seems necessary to complete the task.
Jake was told that seeing the movie decreased the ability of his competition to create a trailer for audiences. He avoided a cognizanthazard paradox by requesting random footage from the movie and learning nothing more about its plot while making the trailer.
by Zigioz March 7, 2023
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Bigot's Paradox

A bigot's paradox is used in the sense when someone who discriminates, insist that they "does not discriminate, " but only "doesn't like these people, " don't "want people to shove it in their face, " etc.
Certain news reporter: "Another severe case of Bigot's Paradox is spotted in a pair of Trumpist couple."

Karen: "I am not homophobic, I just don't like gay people!"

Tim: "I am not racist, (I have an Libyan-Jewish-Latino-Arabic-Chinese-Native American friend, ) I just don't want them to shove their race into my face."
by well sure January 17, 2021
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