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Absurdities and indignities mount as he reminisces about a life spanning wars and famine, revolution and betrayal.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

Absurdities Sometimes, the censorship can throw up real absurdities, according to Mr Mao.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2010

Absurdities to the civilian eye sometimes have a certain wild bureaucratic logic, such as the file in the basement called "the file of non-filed files"�a list of files that have been sent somewhere else.

From Time Magazine Archive

Absurdities in Natural History at which a child would now laugh are gravely advanced, and often supported by quotations from Pliny and other classical authors.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

He has also taken Care to publish simple plain Treatises on the most popular Distempers; which he has substituted in the Place of the former Heap of Absurdities.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)