preposterous
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Preposterous really, how it never even crossed my mind.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025
Everything from Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” to Dav Pilkey’s “Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People” is being consigned to the metaphorical fire.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2022
This has been a particularly invigorating baseball season for me because it has proved a gold mine for one of my favorite phenomena: P.U., which is Preposterous Understatement.
From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2019
Preposterous as some aspects of her story may sound, Ms. Russell writes with such assurance and speed that she puts the reader under a spell for the duration of her story.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2014
Hadria thought of the doctrine of the sovereignty of the will, and of all the grand and noble things that the Preposterous Society had said about it, not to mention Emerson and others—and she smiled.
From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona
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