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Noun
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Unlike its sibling concepts of dumbness and idiocy, stupidity isn’t really a personality trait.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
11 Feb. 2026 -
Harry and Finis refused to play Jack Donahoe’s game of commenting on every idiocy that came across their desks.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Boy stuff and the preposterousness of it all.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Italian football is compelling in its sheer unpredictability, the sweep of its beauty and preposterousness on so many levels.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The fact that that happened to us is insanity and craziness.—
Peter D'Oench,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Thank you for dealing with my craziness over the last couple months.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Shows like Ted Lasso and Shrinking have proven how, with five to 10 extra minutes per episode, zaniness and seriousness can go hand-in-hand.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Feb. 2026
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Plenty of moments on The Fall-Off remind of the hunger of his early mixtapes, the purposeful thrills of his 2010s hits, or even the misguided zaniness of KOD, though none materialize in meaningful doses.—
Benny Sun,
Pitchfork,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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There’s absolutely skill involved, but there’s also a lot of wackiness there, too, with random bounces deciding which teams get breakaways or odd-man rushes.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2026
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But wackiness aside, the nuts and bolts of recruiting go far beyond what antics coaches get up to on the road.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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All this inanity takes place over the course of a handful of days, during which no one ever seems to change clothes.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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The music movie tries to capture the insanity and inanity of being a modern celebrity.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The latest addition to the genre, AMC’s The Audacity, captures all the absurdities, egos, and jargon of the tech scene as deftly as its predecessors.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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In typical 30 Rock fashion, the bit reaches the height of absurdity when someone informs Arthur that some of the tennis balls are meant to be actual tennis balls in the scene.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Once upon a time, the idea of a baseball team allowing most of its games to be broadcast on television was lunacy.—
Ken Sugiura,
AJC.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Bellocchio understood how to make all this lunacy compelling for an audience.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
15 Feb. 2026
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