irrationality
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“Today’s lawsuit continues the absurdity and irrationality that the industry has come to expect from the defunct organization formerly known as the HFPA.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Bennett argued presciently that by kowtowing to radicals, “a great university was brought low by the very forces which modern universities came into being to oppose: ignorance, irrationality and intimidation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon has voiced similar concerns, while Google CEO Sundar Pichai said there was some "irrationality" to the AI boom.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
But Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said Sunday that "there is no justification whatsoever for the barbarity committed," calling it "an unforgivable act of irrationality."
From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025
The possibility of social irrationality resting on a base of individual rationality is suggested by a slight variant of Condorcet’s original example.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
But they can newly explain so many of the irrationalities that are directly a product of the digital age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Well, all the reading I do is sort of aimed at the general mission of being more compassionate toward other people's irrationalities and skeptical of my own.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024
In this way, Kirsch accepts the standard story about modernity: that ours is an era of “disenchantment” in which the old myths and irrationalities have been crushed under the boot heel of enlightened techno-science.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023
The crux of the problem, as Cowen points out, is that it’s nearly impossible to understand irrationalities without taking advantage of them.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2012
It was affirmed that, to a degree of more than skeptic scorn, Bannadonna had been without sympathy for any of the vain-glorious irrationalities of his time.
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
