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Noun
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To illustrate the absurdity of adhering too closely to genre conventions, Galloway describes a plot about an innocent girl who winds up in a strange town.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
7 Aug. 2025 -
Drama, laughs, and a healthy dose of absurdity ensue.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
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Such lunacy will plague Edgewater for generations to come.—
Steve Weinshel,
Chicago Tribune,
20 July 2025
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In the meantime, his past drug use and depression were trotted back out in the lunacy of the Diddy rumor mill.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
14 July 2025
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Jibber-jabbering inanities, Cranston’s cohorts find a solution: Pour coke down his nose.—
Steve Garbarino,
HollywoodReporter,
10 July 2025
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Adams has conditioned New Yorkers to expect so much inanity and cartoonishness that the news was greeted with a kind of glee.—
Eric Lach,
The New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2024
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Kittle’s defense attorney revealed his client is a paranoid schizophrenic and was previously found not guilty on prior charges by reason of insanity.—
Peter D'Abrosca , Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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For all his insanity, his base is energized, and behind him.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
30 July 2025
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Even so, as Jerry delivers his hokum, Offerman invests it with a hypnotic clarity, a sense that Jerry is trying to create a rational and just world — to create salvation — out of the irrational.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 July 2025
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Is this common household spice really an effective tool in the garden, or is this just influencer hokum?—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 June 2025
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This is Spielberg at his most pure and sensational, an undiluted cinematic experience that lacks any of his sentimental claptrap and steers clear of his tendency for multiple endings.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
20 June 2025
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Third, despite Trump’s claptrap, plenty of fresh delta water is being pumped south to fill fire hydrants and the tanks of firefighting aircraft.—
George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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While countless users dismissed the theories as nonsense, the dog pile had begun causing the hot takes to go viral.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Aug. 2025
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Bon Jovi’s team dismissed word of the tour as nonsense.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
14 Aug. 2025
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Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Vegetables like broccoli, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, kale and asparagus are also included in most low-carb diets—as are eggs, cheese, Greek yogurt and nuts like walnuts, peanuts, macadamia nuts and pistachios.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Kookiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kookiness. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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