nonsensical
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Posted daily on TikTok, the nonsensical one minute-long episodes featuring this juicy cast have attracted hundreds of millions of viewers in a matter of weeks.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
The majority of the investment in building and deploying Homes.com External link is done, so it’s sort of nonsensical to not play it out.
From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026
“When the IRS wrote the rules back in 1988, they obviously could not have anticipated the nonsensical situation with cryptocurrency, a publicly traded asset that nonetheless is not necessarily a ‘security.’
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
The language of manifesting your dreams into reality might sound nonsensical or contrived, but to JOP, his magical thinking became his saving grace.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
The country was a single body, with each organ serving its function—to say that Pharaoh exploited the people was therefore as nonsensical as saying that his head “exploited” his hands.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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