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Recent Examples of illogical As presented in the Gang’s illogical scapegoating, fear-mongering, and overall manipulative self-exoneration, the debate turned into a farce. — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026 For instance, a sleep issue prompt yields varied advice depending on prior conversational context, occasionally making illogical leaps. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026 Their complaints have been mostly incoherent and illogical, with UEFA's statement in particular being laughably inaccurate. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 July 2026 He’s made his way into the backrooms and finds that the place keeps going, offering up illogical doorways and holes in the floor. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for illogical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for illogical
Adjective
  • Then there’s the Tesseract, which takes the scooter formula and crams it with an almost unreasonable amount of technology.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026
  • But several individually reasonable events, viewed together and over time, can tell an unreasonable story.
    — Shahen Minasyan, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Between restructuring waves, automation fears and flattening hierarchies, that concern isn’t always irrational.
    — Jonathan H. Westover, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The fact, in other words, that there often isn’t a right answer or a clear victor—and that rational people are subject to irrational forces within and above them.
    — Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • Roosevelt surely understood that nameless, unreasoning, unjustified fear cannot be eradicated.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 9 June 2026
Adjective
  • None of that is illegitimate, and none of it shows up on a data-residency dashboard.
    — Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The researchers suspect that others were created by AI that either hallucinated or, just like the AI agents browsing their file, couldn’t distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate instructions.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

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“Illogical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illogical. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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