absurd
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His replies yielded the best-selling 2014 book “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2022
In 2014, the internet cartoonist known for his XKCD.com stick-figure web comics published “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,” a book using math and science to answer the internet’s weirdest questions.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2022
Theatre of the Absurd pioneer Ionesco had called it an anti-Nazi play.
From Reuters • Nov. 24, 2021
"Absurd Planet" "Circus of Books" "El silencio del pantano" "The Plagues of Breslau" "The Willoughbys" "Win the Wilderness"
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2020
Absurd, the manager protested, Cronkite should use the private phone in his office.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing absurd
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