irony
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The secretary may have gone to Princeton University, but he hasn’t yet grasped the concept of irony.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
The irony is, we need AI to protect us from AI.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Not that the easily impressed senators, eager to exculpate a favored man, took note of the irony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The irony, however: That bully wasn’t completely off base.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
She remembered Urvashi’s laugh....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
Among the many ironies of all this is that newly rich sports stars and celebrities have the least reason to gamble on obscure get-rich-quick schemes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
“So there are ironies piled on ironies. The remedy here is imprisonment, and prisons are the ultimate incubators of antisocial attitudes.”
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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