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or casuistical
as in sophistic
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The characters are treated with odd touches of realism and their sophistic arguments are stingingly psychologized.
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In the world of wellness and health content, few areas of our anatomy attract more interest lately — and specious claims — than the gut microbiome.
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In fairness, concluding no one cares is a specious take, at best, based on the evidence Tuesday.
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This headline is so misleading.
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Pretending that’s not going to happen is misleading and wrong.
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There is a widespread but fallacious perception that India's tariffs are inordinately high.
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The same economists who believe in the same fallacious economic notions?
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In spite of D'Arcy's best efforts, Rhaenyra is an impenetrable character with illogical choices and zero magnetism to the viewers (or seemingly, her councilors).
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He’s made his way into the backrooms and finds that the place keeps going, offering up illogical doorways and holes in the floor.
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Economist Hyman Minsky spent his career explaining how irrational behavior produces fragility and instability in capitalist systems.
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McClanahan has been close enough to his usual production, but without an irrational need for perfection.
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Writing was a corrective to my reality, which felt incoherent.
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However, his second wife, Alicent Hightower (played as a young girl by Emily Carey and as an adult by Olivia Cooke), interprets his incoherent dying words as a change of heart in favor of her son, Aegon II Targaryen (played as a child by Ty Tennant and as an adult by Tom Glynn-Carney).
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According to the Aspen Institute, Norwegian leagues don’t keep score or track standings until the kids are 11 years old, which goes a long way toward eliminating many of the unreasonable pressures that developing athletes often experience in more hyper-competitive environments.
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Luca thinks Marcus is being unreasonable by adding a new ingredient to their dessert at the last minute and by asking Chester to run an errand in awful conditions.
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