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That irrational choice, born of struggle and longing, changed my life.—
Sudhir Gupta,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025 -
Isn’t there something inherently irrational about it?—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.—
Sally Jane Brown,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
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Instead, the extended frenzy of construction has generated an illogical new rule of real estate: As supply increases, so does cost.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
22 Sep. 2025
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Mid-century collective behavior theories considered social movements to be nonrational, spontaneous events occurring during moments of social and cultural breakdown.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Sep. 2025
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Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.—
Frederick Douglass,
The Atlantic,
16 Aug. 2017
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There is a widespread but fallacious perception that India's tariffs are inordinately high.—
Mohan Kumar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Aug. 2025
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The same economists who believe in the same fallacious economic notions?—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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The influencer, who was in her 20s and had garnered over 300,000 followers on TikTok, allegedly wanted to cut ties with Choi due to his coercive instructions and unreasonable scheduling, according to the reports.—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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As Philadelphia gears up for hopefully a return to the playoffs in 2025-26 (although title expectations would be probably an unreasonable expectation now), the team is not being particularly precious with its previous rotational thoughts.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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The speech drew death threats and charges of antisemitism—an imbecilic response, and also a pointed reminder of Germany’s relentless crackdown on criticism of Israel.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2025
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But Newsom was voted into office by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, and he’s handled the unprecedented dual challenges of COVID-19 and climate change reasonably well and far better than the imbecile Trump.—
Steve Lopez Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2021
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The movie devolves into something inexact and thoughtless, without anything distinct to recenter it.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2025
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The Balloon Pant For fall and winter, styling the balloon pant will prove to be a thoughtless process—wear them with oversized knitwear, black ballet flats, or scarf coats.—
Cortne Bonilla,
Vogue,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Surd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surd. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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