irony
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Whatever happens to her claim for custody—or to the child she bore—her story is worth following because of its central irony.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
She acknowledges there’s a bit of irony in her AI fears given she has been able to build a side hustle with blue-collar-themed content thanks to social-media platforms reliant on algorithms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
In a stroke of irony, Google’s deep-learning division, Google Brain, had deployed chatbots internally since 2020.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The label’s growing popularity presents a certain irony for a project founded partly as a critique of fashion’s excesses: Matières Fécales is now luxury fashion itself.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
“If they really are Pandavas, then the irony that you are the one who has been chosen to help them delights me.”
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Writing in The Times, Beard bemoaned that the poem's "erotic puzzles, the teasing ironies, the intriguing questions about truth and falsehood" had been replaced with "a rather ponderous Hollywood message about civilisational decline".
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Juneteenth, though, is awash in ironies, both naturally occurring and of our own making.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
The strange dynamics of their friendship and the dark ironies of Mr. Boyson’s imagination build to an ending worthy of a Martin Scorsese picture: perfectly bleak and a little bit funny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
And, irony of ironies, bitcoin has gone from stand-alone “digital gold” status and financial hedge to acting as just another commodity that swings with stock-market trends.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2024
“Then-” “Are you going to rail about ironies? Hypocrisies?”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing irony
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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