irrational
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Peter Doomanis backed up Carpenter’s claims against Applegate and said that the man poses a serious “and escalating” threat to the singer, and has “developed a disturbing and irrational fixation” on the pop star.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
Macgregor had never known her old friend to be irrational.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
“I think that irrational exuberance that we saw in the dot com era … is just window dressing to cloak what, to me, is normalizing an addictive behavior in our society,” he said.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
Quantum mania has become a staple of the tech sector, dismissed by some as irrational exuberance.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
In their fascinating book Judgement under Uncertainty, Tversky and Kahneman describe a different variety of the seemingly irrational innumeracy that characterizes many of our most critical decisions.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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