absurdity
Example Sentences
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Despite the show’s inherent absurdity, “there’s truly a lot of consumer demand for it,” Justine Moore, a partner on the investing team at Andreessen Horowitz said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
"Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist."
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
"It is pure intention: if there is chaos, it is authored chaos: if it is ugly, it is designed ugliness; if it is absurd, it is willed absurdity."
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
The stakes were higher and layered with the existential absurdity of abrupt shifts, which he carried with an elegant, slightly seething temperament that has found its expression in the work.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
For. several moments we all stared at our cold eggs and pancakes and thought about the absurdity of the situation.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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