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Paradox

a statement in someway that is self-contradictory; a statement that seems wrong when you first read it but in reality expresses some truth.

Flingjore

@flingjore.com

Iran's PGSA launch signals an asymmetric challenge to US maritime control. By mandating crypto currency fees for transit, Tehran forces shippers into a regulatory paradox, pitting Trump Administration sanctions against kinetic risk while directly challenging Western enforcement resolve.

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Lucid

plain; obvious; evident; understandable; characterized by clarity of understanding; rational or sane; clear or transparent

@drtimos.bsky.social

LucidQuest Views >>> Lucid Diligence Brief: Incyte xx Comment below! #LucidQuest #PharmaCI

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Gouge

to make a hole or grove with a curved blade; to dig or force out with a tool; too overcharge

Salvatore Camilleri

@salvatorecamilleri.bsky.social

“Shortly thereafter a rioter grabbed Hodges by the face and tried to gouge out his eyes.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-20-2026?r=enefj&utm_medium=ios

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Parley

a conference between opposing sides in a dispute

Princess Sylvysprit the Second

@sylvyspritii.bsky.social

The Venga Boys hopping on the Vengeance Bus when one of their party members got killed: Revenga Boys, we don't like to parley, it's time to boom boom in THEIR room

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Sully

to dirty; to make impure; to soil; to stain

Anna

@anjvs.bsky.social

Actual athletes: Sports are great and everyone should have the opportunity to play sports!

Transphobes who spend 16 hours a day online: We must protect our hallowed arenas from being sullied by the bodies of the ungodly

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Precursor

a thing or a person that comes before something of the same kind; a forerunner

Invertia

@invertia.com

#Opinión | Por - Airbus aspira a que el A330 MRTT sea "el precursor de muchos contratos" con Italia: "Sería un cambio de paradigma" http://dozz.es/qk7pm2

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Lampoon

to publicly criticize by ridiculing or using sarcasm or irony; to mock, or satirize

Picture This Post

@picturethispost.com

CONSTANCE: A CONFESSION is a dead-on lampoon of our cult prone culture-- SO funny and with great music/performances too. Read the review of this HIGHLY RECOMMENDED performance continuing this weekend in NY..

#ExperimentsinOpera #NYCMusic #NYCTheater #PictureThisPostmusic #PictureThisPostOpera

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Fitfully

not regularly or continuously; intermittently*

Canary Yellow

@canaryyellow.bsky.social

Clement holds key to academy masterplan.🔰

Philippe Clement can be the Canaries head coach to unblock the Colney academy talent pipeline that has only worked fitfully since a 2018/19...

───
The Pink Un 📰 #NCFC

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Anachronism

A thing belonging to a period other than that in which it exists (especially something that is conspicuously old-fashioned)

harsh and incurious

@cwonus.org

reading pandora's star and the intro scene of a near-future NASA mars landing feels notably anachronistic in a way it wouldn't have been a few years ago

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Apposite

apt in the circumstances or in relation to something.*

DystopiaNow!

@dystopianow.bsky.social

Bluesky is really like X without the talented comments.

They actually come across fairly apposite in X - but here they just seem insipid. It's like the leftovers of the banquet.

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