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also eristical
as in sophistic
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Adjective
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The characters are treated with odd touches of realism and their sophistic arguments are stingingly psychologized.—
Charles McNulty,
latimes.com,
8 Sep. 2017
Adjective
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My greatest irrational fear was that the machine might squeeze far tighter than necessary and I’d just be stuck there in immense pain until someone unplugged the cord.—
Zachary Bernstein,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2026
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Silver’s encouragement had filled me with irrational confidence.—
McKay Coppins,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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And some statistics can be misleading, as well.—
Talia Soglin,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2026
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Former employees of the DHS office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in a statement to Congress this month accused the department of providing lawmakers with a misleading report of civil rights complaints there.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
21 Mar. 2026
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There have been all sorts of concerns for a while, including shenanigans around using metrics from SaaS to apply to AI-native companies (that logic is specious at best).—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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These novels offer a post-colonial perspective—an understanding that, though these Americans may have done something positive in China by building roads or hospitals, their very presence, and certainly their perspective on their purpose there, is specious.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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As a player, Q was erratic, illogical, and self-destructive — at one point requesting to be voted out at Tribal Council.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2026
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Link said there’s something illogical about ending widespread use of ExpressVote for early voting.—
Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Both Jaynes and Meany were accused by the Justice Department of aiding and abetting the deprivation of Taylor's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2026
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When patients have few to no symptoms, a kidney biopsy seems like an expensive and unreasonable ask.—
Charles Schmidt,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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There is a widespread but fallacious perception that India's tariffs are inordinately high.—
Mohan Kumar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Aug. 2025
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The same economists who believe in the same fallacious economic notions?—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
Adjective
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Mid-century collective behavior theories considered social movements to be nonrational, spontaneous events occurring during moments of social and cultural breakdown.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Eristic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eristic. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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