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The idea that Saddam would scruple to support al Qaeda seems preposterous even now.

And Steve shoots up in his chair and asks, ‘What did you just say?’—as if the guy had just uttered the most preposterous statement in the history of finance.

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Ron’s odyssey is preposterous, and his passion for seeing it through is deliriously outsized.

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And have you ever seen anything as ludicrous, as preposterous, as jaw-droppingly hilarious as a third Scottish goal going in at the end?

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Still, some residents decried the ballooning fees, with one calling the increase “preposterous.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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