as in incoherence
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Recent Examples of illogic
How responsible a mother can be for her son’s actions remains an open question, but the contortions of her denial, with its euphemisms and its illogic, are closely and relentlessly examined, as is her inability to speak or act to stop him.
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Katie Kitamura, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
The circular illogic perfectly encapsulates college football.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
The illogic of dreams is not a riddle to be solved but a noise that can reveal the meaningful signal.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Yet Evbo’s tale pursues this fascinating illogic of the parkour universe to even greater extremes.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
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Katie Kitamura, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
The circular illogic perfectly encapsulates college football.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
The illogic of dreams is not a riddle to be solved but a noise that can reveal the meaningful signal.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Yet Evbo’s tale pursues this fascinating illogic of the parkour universe to even greater extremes.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for illogic
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The emotional ballast of the film — Davidson’s bond with Dottie Achenbach (a wonderful Maxine Peake), the mother of one his childhood friends, who is also fighting her own health battles — also suffers from moments of incoherence, but the immense power of that bond goes a long way.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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The reason for this incoherence, other Iraqis told me, is that incoherence has always been in Iran’s interest.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This irrationality, which is especially difficult to model, often boils down to computational constraints.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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But coming from Alexander Karp, the CEO and cofounder of Palantir Technologies, this concern-trolling about a growing censoriousness in ‘the culture’ feels almost intentional in its absurdity.—
Book Marks
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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The result is an absurdity that can elicit instinctual laughter at the grossest imagery imaginable.—
Robert Niles,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Illogic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illogic. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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