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Recent Examples of absurdity The most common response centered on the sheer absurdity of the amount. Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025 Sometimes, the absurdity lands with humor. Annie Heilbrunn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025 But in the raw, elemental sense of being awake to the miracle and the absurdity of existence. Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025 With his brow perennially furrowed and hair slicked with sweat, Riley has the exact look and bearing of a suavely addled wrong-man figure from British thrillers of yore — and thus makes a suitably bemused proxy for the viewers in this wasteland of mounting chaos and absurdity. Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for absurdity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for absurdity
Noun
  • More Sargent/Getty Images The sheer insanity of how fast the ball got out of the ballpark captivated a worldwide audience.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • With the ambulance only eight minutes away from Hind, Omar sees only insanity in the way the situation stretches into an hours-long ordeal.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And a bit of Saturday madness, granted most of that came 400 miles away.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • There is a method to the madness, multiple sources say.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Was one of Forest’s virtues last season their relative simplicity, which will now be disrupted?
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • For now, the company is betting that simplicity will appeal to customers.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Director Nisha Ganatra jollies it along, with editor Eleanor Infante making as much rhythmic sense of the mix-ups and physical craziness as possible.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Ganatra and Weiss make everything feel a bit mechanical rather than an escalating spiral of craziness, and too many scenes play like montage fodder without actually taking the plot anywhere.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Absurdity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/absurdity. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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