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absurd

[uhb-surd, -zurd] / əbˈsɜrd, -ˈzɜrd /


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

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

The rugged individualists’ arguments run the gamut from a sincere nostalgia — many chairs designed and installed in the 20th century didn’t even have safety bars, they note — to the intentionally absurd.

From Los Angeles Times

Plori called it "absurd" to ban one of the platforms most used by young Albanians "without taking into account how the internet actually works today".

From Barron's

I roll my eyes to show how absurd that is.

From Literature