nonsense
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Hig thinks most people are decent and can be trusted; Bangley thinks that’s naive nonsense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
"I think that's nonsense, if I can put it bluntly."
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
And they are doing so with their usual brand of nonsense and … er … “alternative facts.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Sky Blues have shown real ambition in the summer and will, along with other newcomers Ipswich Town and Hull City, relish making a nonsense of naysayer predictions such as this one.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“No; some unaccountable one. In short, I believe you have been trying to draw me out—or in; you have been talking nonsense to make me talk nonsense. It is scarcely fair, sir.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing nonsense
"Eleven," Vocabulary from the short story
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"Eleven," Vocabulary from the short story
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