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absurdity

[ab-sur-di-tee, -zur-] / æbˈsɜr dɪ ti, -ˈzɜr- /


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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




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