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also eristical
as in sophistical
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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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Maura’s performance makes Maria Angeles so magnetic and eccentric — earthily practical on some matters, dizzily irrational on others, and sympathetically true to herself on all fronts — that all the film’s other players want for detail and texture by comparison.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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The roll call of people across the decades who have had access to nuclear weapons includes many who are considerably less rational than the irrational rest of us.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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While this might not sound like a large number of soldiers for an entire continent, the number itself is misleading.—
Daniel R. DePetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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But that figure is misleading if interpreted as a direct price for data.—
Seth Joseph,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Inside, the layout is streamlined and intuitive, with a door-in-door compartment for quick grabs, a specious full-width drawer, and a three-tier organization system in the freezer.—
Bailey Berg,
Architectural Digest,
29 Aug. 2025
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Both comparisons are specious and serve little purpose other than to radicalize the respective bases of each party.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Aug. 2025
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Sure, it's been criticized for what some call over-the-top clichés and illogical plot twists, but for some, at least, that's part of the fun.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Further, this assumes AI systems are actually free from the biases present in their training data, which is illogical.—
Luis E. Romero,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The Justice Department in its June 2024 report on problems with policing in Phoenix found that police delayed medical assistance to people who appeared to be incapacitated as a result of the use of force by officers and used unreasonable force on people who had already been wounded by officers.—
Elena Santa Cruz,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Investors had initially feared that ASDA’s undercuts would lead to market leaders Tesco and Sainsbury’s having to lower prices to an unreasonable point in order to maintain their market shares.—
John Choong,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The same economists who believe in the same fallacious economic notions?—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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Lawyers who argued for his ouster on behalf of the National Assembly said the claims by Mr. Yoon were fallacious.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.—
Frederick Douglass,
The Atlantic,
16 Aug. 2017
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“Eristic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eristic. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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