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Recent Examples of irrational Isn’t there something inherently irrational about it? Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025 Jim Edwards InvestingMarkets Back in the ’90s a Fed chief warned about ‘irrational exuberance’ in the markets. Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025 Those poor scientists – their federal funding has been taken away, their research programs scrapped, and their rigorous scientific findings ignored in favor of one man’s irrational, uninformed opinion. Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025 Consciousness, human life, utterly in the grip of its own dreamlife, all our thinking and voicing caught in a web of surreal distortion, generated by our irrational yearning and apprehensions, our appetite for myth, our solipsism. Jane Ciabattari september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for irrational
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrational
Adjective
  • The letter came in response to a September argument from the CPSC that the launching of a new rule-compliant product undermined the argument that the rule was unreasonable.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This is not unreasonable in the least.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.
    Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • Trump has accused Maduro of being an illegitimate president after an election that most independent observers believe was stolen.
    Richard Hall, Time, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Many of the campaigns have been more classic—for example, earlier this year, a wave of fake GitHub pages appeared for LastPass, with hackers using SEO tactics on Google and Bing to boost the illegitimate pages.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Irrational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrational. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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