irony
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"Instagram is fundamentally a platform built around irony," says Verma.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The irony of the reconciliation isn’t lost on Cohen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Whatever happens to her claim for custody—or to the child she bore—her story is worth following because of its central irony.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
In a stroke of irony, Google’s deep-learning division, Google Brain, had deployed chatbots internally since 2020.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
I balk at the irony of the name.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
Writing in The Times, Beard bemoaned that the poem's "erotic puzzles, the teasing ironies, the intriguing questions about truth and falsehood" had been replaced with "a rather ponderous Hollywood message about civilisational decline".
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
“Seems to me like a total own-goal,” says Ms. Worsley, once again boiling the past down to its essence, without belaboring the ironies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
If that’s even 10 percent true, it has to rank as one of the cruelest historical ironies imaginable.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
Dahlia Lithwick: One of the ironies of this case is that the court was able to fast-track this oral argument and get all the briefing in really quickly.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2025
Brinker’s expansive, dazed tone suggested that here was one of life’s giant ironies, “There you are!”
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Vocabulary lists containing irony
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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