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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Alice-in-Wonderland
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As such, the Stars’ best chance is not to get into another track meet like Thursday night’s ridiculous game, won 7-4 by the Avalanche.—
Pierre LeBrun,
New York Times,
3 May 2025 -
Seeing Tristen accept both his mother’s request to stay in the game and the responsibility of leading his team to victory gives the ridiculous exercise that is Restaurant Wars a whole different weight.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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Tonal whiplash — farcical comedy, heavy drama, even a musical number — undermines the film’s emotional stakes.—
Chris Azzopardi,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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In the Omicron stage of the pandemic, the notion that any large urban system could have or should have fully reopened any earlier than the spring of 2021 suddenly seemed a bit farcical.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2025
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Getting to do that one on the Mane Stage was seriously surreal.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
2 May 2025
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Watching that surreal montage in the theater felt like ascending.—
Ayan Artan,
Vogue,
2 May 2025
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These are intentional Kafkaesque problems that the Trump Administration is creating.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
29 Apr. 2025
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No one wants to have their family vacation turned into some Kafkaesque nightmare at the hands of ICE agents emboldened by the country's general climate of incipient fascism.—
Matt Robison,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
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To suggest the Oilers would be winning a war of attrition a week ago would have been ludicrous.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Since at least last May last year, Hazan has been working on a truly ludicrous project: packing a fire-breathing 3.5-liter Ferrari V8 engine from an F355 into a handmade motorcycle.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Apr. 2025
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The 9-2 final is a laughable score, but neither side was having much fun.—
Arthur Staple,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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That’s a sentence that would have been laughable just a couple of years ago.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Alice-in-Wonderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Alice-in-Wonderland. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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