irrationality
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Olga slides into a state of irrationality that threatens her ability to care for her son and daughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
But Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said Sunday that "there is no justification whatsoever for the barbarity committed," calling it "an unforgivable act of irrationality."
From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025
It’s simply a matter of taking advantage of structural market irrationality.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 26, 2025
Through the animal’s point of view, De Los Santos Arias considers the enduring grip of colonialism and the consequences of human irrationality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
The possibility of social irrationality resting on a base of individual rationality is suggested by a slight variant of Condorcet’s original example.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
But they can newly explain so many of the irrationalities that are directly a product of the digital age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Well, all the reading I do is sort of aimed at the general mission of being more compassionate toward other people's irrationalities and skeptical of my own.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024
In this way, Kirsch accepts the standard story about modernity: that ours is an era of “disenchantment” in which the old myths and irrationalities have been crushed under the boot heel of enlightened techno-science.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023
The crux of the problem, as Cowen points out, is that it’s nearly impossible to understand irrationalities without taking advantage of them.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2012
So firmly has this become entrenched in the minds of men that the irrationalities which manifest themselves against such a conception make no impression.
From The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks
