absurdness

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Noun
  • The forecast for Thursday calls for craziness.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 18 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, the Spurs had to rush off the court to avoid getting caught up in all the craziness.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • That’s the level of idiocy in the Los Angeles city government.
    Susan Shelley, Daily News, 13 May 2026
  • The idiocy of these people knows no bounds.
    Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • And yet the absurdity didn’t stop there.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 21 June 2026
  • At a time when the average new vehicle transaction price continues marching toward absurdity (roughly $51,000 now), that affordability matters.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • Is this just a salary dump, or is there a method to the madness for the Wolves?
    Zach Harper, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • Welcome to the Amazon Prime Day 2026 madness!
    Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • No, but the line captures the aristocracy’s witlessness.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Any larger Hollywood studio would have likely insisted on a grander finale, but The Death of Robin Hood, produced by A24, left me pondering the foolishness of my need for such a denouement.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • The popular Instagram page @touronsofnationalparks is known for spotlighting the foolishness of people in national parks.
    David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • There is, of course, a strong current of senselessness running through the film.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In 2018, Brennan’s sister spoke to WMUR about the senselessness of the murder.
    KC Baker, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But the flight to extremism, and the metastasizing inanity, is a two-party problem, and those of us who are Democrats and who care about the importance of regrowing the dormant (if not dead) political center have an obligation to try to do something about it.
    Jeffrey Robbins, Boston Herald, 4 May 2026
  • The post-liberals stand for cruelty and inanity, but Brooks can’t admit to standing for much of anything at all.
    Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
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“Absurdness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/absurdness. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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