absurd
Example Sentences
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How fortunate we are that chronicling and exploding our absurd reality is writer-director Boots Riley’s whole thing.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
"I can't believe they thought they could pull off something like this and people would just let it slide... it's utterly absurd and infuriating," an X user wrote early on Tuesday.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Chow wrote in a letter to a group of families of victims of the crackdown this month: "This is an absurd trial where the plaintiff has become the defendant."
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
I think it starts from the same thing that inspired my own hesitation to declare the frozen trucker case absurd when I first heard about it.
From Slate • May 13, 2026
It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing absurd
Unit 1: Telling Details
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"A Walk to the Jetty," Vocabulary from a novel excerpt
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The Pigman
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