absurdity
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Absurdity aside, there’s no denying its beautiful ending: Keiko, swimming with his brethren, reimmersed in the wild waters near Iceland.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
Absurdity isn’t a good guide to the facticity of claims about our government and leaders, either.
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2018
Absurdity coexists with logic, appalled or astonished bafflement blend with efforts at analytical comprehension of practicalities and motives.
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2017
Apple Exploits an Absurdity, Levin Says “Apple is exploiting an absurdity, one that we have not seen other companies use,” Senator Levin said.
From New York Times • May 21, 2013
Witness Menenius in the following Tragedy, whom he has made an errant Buffoon, which is a great Absurdity.
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol
Vocabulary lists containing absurdity
Stargirl
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"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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Vocabulary from the Sixth Democratic Debate, February 11, 2016
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