nonsensical
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The language used to describe snack tins is so flowery — and muddled by hyper-wellness jargon — it’s almost nonsensical.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
Bulgarian singer Dara has the night's best staging on Bangaranga - a nonsensical typhoon of tropical pop, based around a word from Jamaican patois that means "a joyful kind of disorder".
From BBC • May 15, 2026
The sampling of funk and glam rock classics momentarily distracts us from the nonsensical staging choices and hopped-up gags, but only for so long.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
American Jews, exhausted by the nonsensical charge of disloyalty, have bent themselves into impressive contortions to demonstrate their bona fides as unambiguous, undivided, thoroughly unadulterated Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
I tried to read “Song of Myself” again when I got home that night, but despite Dr. Holden’s advice, it still turned into a jumble of nonsensical words.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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