Thesaurus / nonsensical
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It seems like a nonsensical jumble of food when we describe it like this, but it turned out to be a fairly decent meal.
LOCKED UP IN THE LAND OF LIBERTY: PART IIMICHAEL K. LAVERSJULY 14, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEHe claimed that everyone came up with made-up tales, sometimes nonsensical stories.
LOCKED UP IN THE LAND OF LIBERTY: PART IYARIEL VALDÉS GONZÁLEZJULY 7, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEMuch of the game’s presentation hasn’t aged well, from the problematic depictions of Africa’s zombies down to the nonsensical writing.
EVERY RESIDENT EVIL GAME, RANKEDGENE PARKMAY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHatcher repeated the same nonsensical plan, and we knew something was very wrong.
MY SON FELL WHILE SKIING. THEN HIS MIND WENT BLANK.TRACY ROSSAPRIL 12, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINERoboKiller takes a cheeky approach to fighting scammers by helping screen scam calls — and wasting the scammers’ time by engaging them in nonsensical conversations.
DON’T FALL VICTIM TO NEWEST SCAMSPALLABI MUNSIMARCH 10, 2021OZYTo rule out “nonsensical” designs, the researchers developed an animal-inspired “graph grammar”—a set of rules for how parts can be connected, says Allan Zhao, a PhD student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
AUTOMATIC FOR THE ROBOTSKATIE MCLEANFEBRUARY 24, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIn any other era, this caption would be totally nonsensical — Valentine’s Day by Dada.
HOW HALLMARK IS HANDLING PANDEMIC VALENTINE’S DAYLUKE WINKIEFEBRUARY 12, 2021VOXEven when it was done, such as on YouTube’s closed-captioning option, the result was often nonsensical.
2020 HAS SUCKED—BUT THERE ARE SOME SMALL SILVER LININGSTANYA BASUDECEMBER 25, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWVeresen continued to maintain publicly that it was planning to import natural gas, but as the plan became increasingly nonsensical, the company looked to exports as an alternative.
IT’S HIS LAND. NOW A CANADIAN COMPANY GETS TO TAKE IT.BY LEE VAN DER VOO FOR PROPUBLICAOCTOBER 1, 2020PROPUBLICAIt is nonsensical to parch one's throat with thirst when a kindly Mahomedan is ready to offer pure water to drink.
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