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Absurdities and indignities mount as he reminisces about a life spanning wars and famine, revolution and betrayal.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

Absurdities Sometimes, the censorship can throw up real absurdities, according to Mr Mao.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2010

Absurdities to the civilian eye sometimes have a certain wild bureaucratic logic, such as the file in the basement called "the file of non-filed files"�a list of files that have been sent somewhere else.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also in the Absurdities of Ravisius Textor, there is a long list of characters who came to the same magnificent end.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

While I reject old Women's Fables, monkish Tales, Absurdities, and pretended Miracles, I am disposed to receive as Truth, that which seems natural, reasonable, and well supported by evidence.

From An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170 by Williams, John