absurdity
Example Sentences
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Which is why some of the best moments in these shows are moments of absurdity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
“Just the underlying absurdity or joke really gives you the ability to go to these really intense emotional places,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
Despite the absurdity of the whole fight, there was no bad blood as the self-styled "brothers" embraced at the end.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
"Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist."
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
“I cannot tell till I have thought it all over. If, on reflection, I find I have fallen into no great absurdity, I shall try to forgive you; but it was not right.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing absurdity
Stargirl
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"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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Vocabulary from the Sixth Democratic Debate, February 11, 2016
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