nonsensical
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Our narrator, one of the wandering statues, recounts the group’s escape plan, peppering his speech with nonsensical, knock-off Latin words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Meanwhile, White House pool reporters reacted on Wednesday with nonsensical questions, equal parts banal and fawning.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
“There’s no cash-producing asset under this — it’s just a big derivative onion tied to a nonsensical index,” he wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda, meanwhile, invoked the viral protest catchphrase "waste-guna-huiya" - a deliberately nonsensical meme popularised during the demonstrations - to poke fun at the government.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
I tried to read “Song of Myself” again when I got home that night, but despite Dr. Holden’s advice, it still turned into a jumble of nonsensical words.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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