kookiness

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Noun
  • As stocks surge, Chanos has been warning of other market absurdities including the proliferation of Bitcoin treasury companies which raise money to buy and hold the cryptocurrency.
    Glen Luke Flanagan, Fortune, 30 June 2025
  • In his high-energy hour, featuring plenty of material and crowd work alike, which was taped at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle, WA, Jackson tackles everything from racially questionable cookies to other everyday absurdities.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Why do so many leaders turn a blind eye to this lunacy?
    Letters to the Editor, Oc Register, 29 May 2025
  • Hart would throw one more strike in four more pitches, and his day was finished, as the lunacy was just getting started.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Hacks takes no backseat in its send-up of show biz inanity, but with more heart along the way.
    Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Whether to get some space from his inanity, be able to spend more time with her ex-boyfriend, or simply encourage him to be a person, Tammy urges Craig to make friends with Austin (Paul Rudd), the affable evening news weatherman who moves in down the street.
    Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Defense had planned to argue insanity Purdy’s trial had been scheduled to take place in July.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
  • The trial was initially scheduled to begin three months ago but was delayed after Abril changed his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • From the foothills of the Berkshires arises a venerable strain of American madness, the poetry of hokum—the old weird America of medicine shows and travelling circuses and carnivals.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • That's nonsense… and anyone who's been a part of these productions knows that IN FACT the opposite is true.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 9 July 2025
  • The song was essentially one long joke about animal noises, and once the joke wore off, what remained was an insanely repetitive chorus of nonsense.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • 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 13 Jul. 2025.

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