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Noun
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But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Aug. 2025
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
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If anyone remembers the craziness of the MarketWatch IPO, that’s what really got the dot-com movement going and turned a lot of bankers’ heads.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
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Occupying a two-mile run from Beach Boulevard south to the Newport Beach line, State Beach is family friendly and features many of the amenities of its northern neighbor without the volume of crowds, hassles or craziness.—
Greg Mellen,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
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The ball sailed over the head of Spencer Torkelson, Martínez and Steven Kwan advanced a base and set in motion a flurry of zaniness that flipped the script for the series opener.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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Annually, Wheeler has to demonstrate his manic-zaniness by jumping out the window of a local business.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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But wackiness ensues, crimes are solved, and every episode sees Morgan drop two or three factoids that have a high potential of coming up at your next trivia night.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
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But that inanity, that ridiculousness is embedded in the story.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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For the past four years, Honan has been a worm in Adams’s apple, scoring scoop after scoop about the dramas, inanities, and intrigues of his administration.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
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Ohio is another absurdity, used to describe something strange, weird, or cringey.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025
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The absurdity of the situation began to dawn on me, and a round of giggles began building inside.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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There was the escalating lunacy of Sal and Quinn’s backlot power struggle, up to and including a hurled burrito.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
30 Aug. 2025
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Yang is genius not just for playing the easy pickins of George Santos but high-concept lunacy like a gay oompaloompa and the iceberg that sunk the Titanic.—
Steven Zeitch,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Nincompoopery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nincompoopery. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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