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absurd

[uhb-surd, -zurd] / əbˈsɜrd, -ˈzɜrd /


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In a public letter, executives said the claim that Jefferies couldn’t pay back its debt was “false and absurd.”

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Raleigh may be displaying intensity, but the idea that a gentle fist bump of a current MLB teammate is treason is a special brand of absurd.

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It was, however, among Skenes’s most impressive showings, considering the absurd level of talent in the opposing dugout.

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Others, often dual nationals who didn’t grow up in Israel, see the situation as almost comically absurd.

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In Mikula’s view, car buying has become so absurd that what he’s doing makes perfect sense, even if it is a little offbeat.

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