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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.
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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.
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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.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
Like many politicians, Khan is trying to reason with a maelstrom of unreason.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Is this just a salary dump, or is there a method to the madness for the Wolves?
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Welcome to the Amazon Prime Day 2026 madness!
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Bland was obsessed with religion, but that did not amount to insanity, the prosecutor argued.
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Part of what drew him to the case, Burton said, was that many of the issues relevant then are still relevant today, like the death penalty, the use of the insanity defense, parole and rehabilitation.
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Several companies announced their own cryptocurrencies or pivoted to blockchain during the height of crypto mania.
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, bipolar disorder is marked by periods of mania, along with depressive episodes.
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By chance, Rhaena arrives at the Gullet on dragonback just in time to make the same hubristic mistake as her sister and her cousin, all suffering from the delusion that the war needs them.
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Schizoaffective disorder is a mental health condition that is marked by a mix of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions, and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression, mania and a milder form of mania called hypomania, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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“Unreason.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreason. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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