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nonsense

[non-sens, -suhns] / ˈnɒn sɛns, -səns /


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When those pressures capture journals or entire fields, peer review can become less a filter for error than a credentialing system for fashionable nonsense.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

To providers themselves, however, this is condescending, victim-blaming nonsense.

From Salon • May 18, 2026

The boneheaded prediction is a sports hack’s loyal companion, and the reliable move is to ignore it, carry on, hope we all get mad about some other nonsense and forget it happened.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

Rayner and Burnham are "talking every day", I'm told, although a Team Rayner source told me that suggestion was "nonsense".

From BBC • May 2, 2026

This was not the sort of nonsense Mrs. Jacobs would brook.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu




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