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The phrase "then paradoxically" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a statement that contrasts with what has been previously mentioned, highlighting an unexpected or contradictory outcome. Example: "The team was expected to fail; then paradoxically, they achieved the highest sales in the company's history."
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And then, paradoxically, their art was embraced to the extent that it advertised African-ness.
The war with Serbia lasted longer than Western officials thought it would and then, paradoxically, it ended sooner than they had imagined it could.
Muzzle-loading rifles required a bullet smaller than the bore so it could easily be rammed into the muzzle and then, paradoxically, as large as the bore so that upon firing it would snugly fill the grooves and fully use the force of the powder gases.
Under the category "thoughts on life" in his biography in Who's Who, Rabbi Schindler was quoted as saying, "To live life fully, clinging to its many gifts with all my might and then, paradoxically, to let go when life compels us to surrender what it gave".
It was the fate of this protean figure to have exasperated almost as many people as he pleased, and then, paradoxically, to have left in his wake a huge, unfillable void, as if not just a musician but tremendous cultural possibilities had died on October 14 , 1990...
Indeed, as the three dissenters point out, there is a legal tension between saying that particular serious justifications are needed for such difference of treatment and then paradoxically not assessing whether such reasons where present, but rather going into the margin of appreciation question.
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Then again, paradoxically, networks would dissolve stable social structures – such as nation states – and their loss could make people want to belong again to "closed" communities.
Paradoxically, then, saber rattling against Iran may help achieve political resolution.
Paradoxically, then, the very success of modern states in preventing political violence make them particularly vulnerable to terrorism.
Paradoxically, then, Mother Teresa's doubt may have contributed to the efficacy of one of the more notable faith-based initiatives of the last century.
But Dr. Kateb points out that if courage finds its highest expression in war, then the trait paradoxically becomes an immoral virtue, ennobling war and carnage by insisting that only in battle can men — and it usually is men — discover the depths of their nobility.
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