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Recent Examples of impracticality
There was something freeing about opting into impracticality.
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Junnelle Hogen, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
Junnelle Hogen, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impracticality
Noun
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Around the same time, a rare Saturn–Neptune alignment challenges old beliefs about love and commitment, especially those shaped by idealism rather than experience.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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All the energy and idealism in that disillusioned age were on the right, as those bright young men in their supply-side neckties came flooding into Washington promising national renewal.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Mia's courage, optimism and grace touched the lives of the entire Husky community.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Yet investors bought the dip Friday on optimism that the shutdown might end relatively soon.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Know that conversations deserve deep sincerity.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
3 Jan. 2026
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Part of what comes to me, Roxana, is my sincerity and my earnestness.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
1 Jan. 2026
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Gilbert’s colloquial style, once a source of great pleasure, has tipped into new territory—an ingenuousness that blends guru and disciple, mother and child.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt brushed off those comments as an example of the president’s frankness.—
Brett Samuels,
The Hill,
8 Dec. 2025
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Their frankness and loyalty are also notable when the call is in.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
23 Nov. 2025
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The Windsor family often shares moments during this time of year that reflect their warmth and naturalness.—
María Munsuri,
Glamour,
25 Dec. 2025
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Frogposting, then, pits the intractably byzantine, soulless and cutthroat nature of the contemporary economy in a simple binary against what the posters envision as the green, healthy, naturalness of the Earth—framed as a joke, the base unit of online commentary.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
3 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Young Swift possessed a kind of guilelessness, but the thirty-six-year-old version has seen things, felt things, been hurt.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
4 Jan. 2026
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But there’s a guilelessness to everything Bella does, a trust in the universe and an insatiable curiosity about humanity.—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
9 Nov. 2025
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The simplicity makes the robot lighter, cheaper, and easier to operate.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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For those seeking simplicity, options such as eco-friendly guesthouses, cozy budget inns, or camping at Cinnamon Bay offer affordable ways to stay close to nature.—
Essence,
Essence,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Impracticality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impracticality. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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