Thesaurus / outlandish
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This version of TheDonald, while very similar in form to what had lived on Reddit, spiraled further toward more outlandish and dangerous speech.
THEDONALD’S OWNER SPEAKS OUT ON WHY HE FINALLY PULLED PLUG ON HATE-FILLED SITECRAIG TIMBERG, DREW HARWELLFEBRUARY 5, 2021WASHINGTON POST
The more she does outlandish things, the more she will be criticized, and the more she will use the criticism as evidence of her silencing, and the more money she will raise, the more she will win.
THE GREENE-HOUSE GAS EFFECT IS TOXIC. REPUBLICANS WON’T CRACK A WINDOW.MONICA HESSEFEBRUARY 4, 2021WASHINGTON POST
From building an underwater wall 120 kilometers long to try to save a glacier to cloud seeding an area three times the size of Spain to increase rainfall, it seems there’s no project too outlandish to at least consider—if not put into action.
SCIENTISTS WANT TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE BY BLOCKING THE SUN WITH DUSTVANESSA BATES RAMIREZJANUARY 28, 2021SINGULARITY HUB
Any sports fan or political partisan will be familiar with the emotional rush that conspiracy theorists feel when saying outlandish things.
IT’S TIME TO RAISE THE COST OF SPREADING CONSPIRACY THEORIESMATTHEW HEIMERJANUARY 14, 2021FORTUNE
Without an understanding of the deep theoretical ideas behind it, axions just seemed outlandish.
A PRODIGY WHO CRACKED OPEN THE COSMOSCLAUDIA DREIFUSJANUARY 12, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINE
The Flight Attendant somehow takes this outlandish crime scenario and transforms it into something of a shared experience — one that we can giddily judge and rejoice that we aren’t actually having ourselves.
THE ABSURD, SADISTIC JOY OF THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTALEX ABAD-SANTOSDECEMBER 18, 2020VOX
Smartmatic’s potential lawsuits could also serve to bring judicial scrutiny of some of the more outlandish claims—like plots by Venezuela to rig the election—advanced by the likes of Giuliani and Powell.
VOTING MACHINE MAKER THREATENS TO SUE FOX NEWS OVER CONSPIRACY CLAIMSJEFFDECEMBER 14, 2020FORTUNE
This is great at finding those outlandish queries that you may not have necessarily thought about or seen elsewhere.
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Making outlandish predictions that tend to come true is largely the story of Kurzweil’s life, as Fortune noted four years ago.
SOLAR POWER IS “THE NEW KING OF ELECTRICITY”GEOFFREY COLVINOCTOBER 13, 2020FORTUNE
Complaints often involved outlandish-sounding allegations, like someone voting, then removing their hat, shaving their mustache, and getting back in line to vote again.
HOW TO FIX AMERICA’S VOTER REGISTRATION SYSTEM SO MORE PEOPLE CAN VOTEJEN KIRBYOCTOBER 6, 2020VOX
WORDS RELATED TO OUTLANDISH
- aberrant
- abnormal
- astonishing
- astounding
- atypical
- bizarre
- curious
- different
- eccentric
- erratic
- exceptional
- extraordinary
- fantastic
- far-out
- funny
- idiosyncratic
- ignorant
- inexperienced
- irregular
- marvelous
- mystifying
- new
- newfangled
- odd
- oddball
- off
- offbeat
- out-of-the-way
- outlandish
- peculiar
- perplexing
- quaint
- queer
- rare
- remarkable
- singular
- unaccountable
- unaccustomed
- uncanny
- uncommon
- unheard of
- unseasoned
- unusual
- weird
- wonderful
- artificial
- barbaric
- barbarous
- coarse
- crass
- crude
- flashy
- foolish
- garish
- gaudy
- graceless
- hideous
- impolite
- improper
- indecorous
- indelicate
- indiscreet
- inelegant
- loud
- low
- low-down
- low-down-and-dirty
- makeshift
- off-color
- ornate
- ostentatious
- outlandish
- pretentious
- raunchy
- rough
- rude
- showy
- stupid
- tacky
- tactless
- tawdry
- trivial
- uncouth
- unlovely
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unseemly
- unsightly
- useless
- wild
- astonishing
- beyond belief
- cockamamie
- cockeyed
- doubtful
- dubious
- far-fetched
- fishy
- flaky
- flimsy
- for the birds
- full of holes
- harebrained
- implausible
- impossible
- improbable
- incogitable
- inconceivable
- incredible
- kooky
- lamebrained
- open to doubt
- outlandish
- past belief
- phony
- preposterous
- questionable
- reaching
- scatterbrained
- screwy
- staggering
- suspect
- thick
- thin
- too much
- unconvincing
- unimaginable
- unsubstantial
- unthinkable
- weak
- won't hold water
- won't wash
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