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Leaders and others in these communities have often spoken out against violence as a solution, while warning that pondering existential and nightmarish scenarios can overwhelm and destabilize vulnerable people.—
St. John Barned-Smith,
San Francisco Chronicle,
12 Apr. 2026 -
Sprawling, fearsome scenes of battle unfurl with a nightmarish, exhaustively detailed authenticity.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Apr. 2026
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Curry scored their last 13 points of regulation, punctuated by a ridiculous game-tying 35-footer.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
12 Apr. 2026
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The Daily News must remove the ridiculous TV crossword puzzles from Ricky Cruz and bring back Jacqueline Mathews.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr. 2026
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The mechanics of talking to his sons sound farcical.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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Morris lets his subjects' personalities sparkle, weaving a wild farcical tale about the mundane that is believable but just weird enough to stand out.—
Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Feb. 2026
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Floating quietly in the water while these massive creatures moved through the ocean around us felt surreal, the kind of travel moment that lodges permanently in memory.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2026
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In a surreal intertextual turn, Bratu’s Angela, played by Dorina Lazăr, appears in Jude’s contemporary Bucharest.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Those who value and respect America but couldn’t find their way through the Kafkaesque immigration system deserve a chance to rectify their situation.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
10 Aug. 2025
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In a Kafkaesque twist, Trump’s chart assigns Eswatini the lowest possible (10 percent) reciprocal tariff, despite the fact the nation applies the same external tariffs as Lesotho.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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To think Erik Spoelstra wants to fail is ludicrous.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
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This drink, as described by 007 himself, is ludicrous.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
4 Apr. 2026
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German Expressionism and Surrealism, deemed degenerate by Nazis and Soviets alike, show up in stylized figuration, spatial distortion, and a dreamlike atmosphere.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
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Their romance emerges alongside the dreamlike atmosphere of the mysterious circus, their illusions becoming a way to communicate with each other.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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Republicans who backed the laughable and deservedly unsuccessful 2021 recall of Newsom won’t have a leg to stand on in blasting this as an undemocratic power play.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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When ChatGPT couldn’t reliably add and subtract, let alone search the web, the notion that AI programs would soon be able to do world-class machine-learning research seemed laughable.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Alice-in-Wonderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Alice-in-Wonderland. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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