irony
Example Sentences
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The irony isn’t lost on me that saving for my own wedding has meant getting much better at budgeting for everyone else’s.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 7, 2026
Kim Jong-hyun, who lives in San Diego and was visiting South Korea with his family, said it was the irony of the contrast that drew him to the hilltop.
From Barron's • Jul. 2, 2026
Sen. Ted Cruz says without irony that “the framers were worried that we would have an executive that behaved like a king.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026
It’s a cruel quirk of fate, or maybe just a tragic irony, that we are celebrating America’s semiquincentennial during one of the most surreal periods in American history.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2026
In a separate correspondence about the same time with John Taylor, another prominent Virginia planter and political thinker who had also questioned Adams’s views on aristocracy, Adams called attention to the irony of the situation.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing irony
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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