nonsensical
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Then, a few minutes into the debate, he said “something nonsensical about beating Medicare,” she writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
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
Local car salesmen wanted to roll over and play dead when one of the Langley fellas pulled into the lot, fearing a barrage of nonsensical and unanswerable technical questions.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Vocabulary lists containing nonsensical
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