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Noun
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Mika Rottenberg’s work explores the pure absurdities of our current world.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025 -
These over-the-top moments and the absurdity of its title may be the elements that made Zombi 2 famous, but beneath them is a movie with an eerie, uncanny vibe that's shockingly easy to get lost in.—
James Grebey,
Time,
20 June 2025
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Florida is a state of paradoxes, from its history of colonization and relationship to enslavement, to its immigrant communities and conservative politics, to its gorgeous waters and swampy inlands.—
Leila Mottley
June 27,
Literary Hub,
27 June 2025
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These mechanical advances evolve into an extended metaphor for modern life’s digital paradox.—
Simon Parkin,
The Atlantic,
23 June 2025
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Already concerned about the incongruity of having a comic yukking it up with what was happening with the AP and other outlets, the WHCA scrapped her.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
27 Apr. 2025
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Kirby’s incongruity is terrifying, so said someone much wiser than me.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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The irony is that those upgrades had finally started to accelerate just as Microsoft issued its surprising news.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Proulx understood the irony: The same vast spaces that promise freedom also isolate, corral and break people.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
27 June 2025
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And this one provision, which is highly punitive and discriminatory towards companies who are guilty of nothing more than deciding to create opportunities here in the United States, is in direct contradiction to the president's vision.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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By ordering these strikes, Trump acted without congressional approval and in contradiction to his campaign promise to avoid the kind of disasters experienced in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
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The film still manages to dig into the peculiarities of Formula One within its big, meaty character study.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2025
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There are echoes of the early days of thermodynamics, which began with humble questions about how machines work and ended up speaking to the arrow of time, the peculiarities of living matter, and the fate of the universe.—
Philip Ball,
Wired News,
8 June 2025
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The vivifying dichotomy is even announced in advance.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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The funding cut, Turner says, highlights a dichotomy between the Trump Administration’s aim to leave disaster response to communities—without providing them with the tools to respond.—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
16 June 2025
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“Illogicality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illogicality. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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