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Recent Examples of unreason
In that book, his characters confront the decline of American public speech—its degeneration into varieties of unreason and the proto-fascist violence that follows.
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Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2026
Good manners are replaced with bad, reason with unreason, and the drawing-room drama’s comforting show of civility becomes an unsettling exhibition of cruelty: the lunch that is served up is a picnic on a precipice.
—John Lahr, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
For one, the sheer appeal to unreason underlying Thunberg’s anti-Zionism — betraying its origins in an emotional reflex rather than a logical argument, and thus impossible to negotiate with — is identical to her earlier approach to environmental activism.
—The Editors, National Review, 11 June 2025
For all Eggers’s dramatization of unreason, his images sit heavily onscreen awaiting something more significant than mere admiration—interpretation.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Like many politicians, Khan is trying to reason with a maelstrom of unreason.
—Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 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
Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2026
Good manners are replaced with bad, reason with unreason, and the drawing-room drama’s comforting show of civility becomes an unsettling exhibition of cruelty: the lunch that is served up is a picnic on a precipice.
—John Lahr, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
For one, the sheer appeal to unreason underlying Thunberg’s anti-Zionism — betraying its origins in an emotional reflex rather than a logical argument, and thus impossible to negotiate with — is identical to her earlier approach to environmental activism.
—The Editors, National Review, 11 June 2025
For all Eggers’s dramatization of unreason, his images sit heavily onscreen awaiting something more significant than mere admiration—interpretation.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Like many politicians, Khan is trying to reason with a maelstrom of unreason.
—Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreason
Noun
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All had extremely low omega-3 levels and at least one risk factor for dementia, such as obesity, sedentary lifestyle, high blood pressure or cholesterol.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
18 June 2026
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Emma has taken on a caregiver role for Bruce in the last four years after he was diagnosed with aphasia and stepped away from acting in 2022 and received a frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis the following year.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
Noun
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Driven by revenge and madness, Sweeney Todd slices necks he is meant to just shave.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
16 June 2026
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Horkheimer and Adorno had concluded that advanced capitalism, far from being a technocratic monolith, had an inherent tendency toward chaos and madness.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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However, what seemed like the perfect life was really a complex house of cards built on lies and insanity.—
David Hookstead OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
16 June 2026
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Support ballot measures or candidates (not named Steyer) focused on reforming the state’s zoning and regulatory insanity.—
Michelle Cottle,
Mercury News,
16 June 2026
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The concern is whether such stocks shot too high, too fast because of AI mania, and their careening moves have sometimes reversed direction by the hour.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
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Admittedly, as a New Yorker, my algorithm was mostly a constant stream of Knicks mania.—
Sara Germano,
Sportico.com,
15 June 2026
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The darkly comedic drama confronts reality, privacy, and the delusions fueling our ever-changing world.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
16 June 2026
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Also, just a little bit of delusion will carry you a long way.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
16 June 2026
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“Unreason.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreason. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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