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Recent Examples of unreason
For all Eggers’s dramatization of unreason, his images sit heavily onscreen awaiting something more significant than mere admiration—interpretation.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Its opening paragraph: For years, many of us have noted and analyzed the phenomenon of Bush hatred — and all the unreason, hysteria, and meanness packed into it.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Oct. 2024
Hayek’s market seems to conjure a wondrous democracy of unreason.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
The country has entered what can only be characterized as an age of unreason, with large swaths of its population embracing wild conspiracy theories.
—Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2021
Like many politicians, Khan is trying to reason with a maelstrom of unreason.
—Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
My piece began, For years, many of us have noted and analyzed the phenomenon of Bush hatred — and all the unreason, hysteria, and meanness packed into it.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 May 2023
The slaughter of 20 million people grotesquely buttressed his insistence that conscious rationality co-exists with aggressive unreason and his skepticism toward naïve narratives of inevitable social and technological progress.
—Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
With its double binds and reversals, life in a pandemic feels beholden to dream logic, to the unreason of lying awake in the dark.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Its opening paragraph: For years, many of us have noted and analyzed the phenomenon of Bush hatred — and all the unreason, hysteria, and meanness packed into it.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Oct. 2024
Hayek’s market seems to conjure a wondrous democracy of unreason.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
The country has entered what can only be characterized as an age of unreason, with large swaths of its population embracing wild conspiracy theories.
—Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2021
Like many politicians, Khan is trying to reason with a maelstrom of unreason.
—Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
My piece began, For years, many of us have noted and analyzed the phenomenon of Bush hatred — and all the unreason, hysteria, and meanness packed into it.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 May 2023
The slaughter of 20 million people grotesquely buttressed his insistence that conscious rationality co-exists with aggressive unreason and his skepticism toward naïve narratives of inevitable social and technological progress.
—Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
With its double binds and reversals, life in a pandemic feels beholden to dream logic, to the unreason of lying awake in the dark.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreason
Noun
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Be smart: Keeping your brain on its toes, so to speak, can help prevent dementia.—
Carly Mallenbaum,
Axios,
7 May 2025
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Social isolation is a leading risk factor for a wide range of serious health problems, including heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.—
Rob Simmelkjaer,
New York Daily News,
6 May 2025
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And, last weekend, in the midst of Met Gala madness, the four iconic artist-entrepreneurs were reunited at the show’s 20th anniversary.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
14 May 2025
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In some Asian and Middle Eastern traditions, dementia was historically associated with madness or idiocy.—
Marion Renault,
The Atlantic,
13 May 2025
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As part of an agreement between defense and prosecuting attorneys, 35-year-old Bryson Levy was found not guilty by reason of insanity on Feb. 4.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
9 May 2025
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Dominguez has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to the stabbings two years ago that killed David Breaux, 50, and Karim Abou Najm, 20, as well as the near-fatal attack on Guillory.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
8 May 2025
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Marine Serre decorated baggy styles with its signature moon logo, offering a print alternative to logo mania.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
2 May 2025
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Reporter Steven Levy profiled its inventor in his Palo Alto office a decade ago, when AeroPress mania was first reaching fever pitch.—
Matthew Korfhage,
Wired News,
19 Apr. 2025
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Spread it around Twitter where the console wars are still kept alive via delusion, sadness and regressive human thinking.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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However, in addition, the Moon also opposes fuzzy Neptune in your sign, which can create confusion, delusion and deceit.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
8 May 2025
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“Unreason.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreason. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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