irrationality

“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

Options remain the best way to monetize investor irrationality and emotional dysregulation.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

At least one fellow, however, thought the addition represented a surrender to the forces of superstition and irrationality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

It’s simply a matter of taking advantage of structural market irrationality.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 26, 2025

Like the proof of the irrationality of V2, like the discussion of simultaneity in special relativity, this is an argument in which the premise is challenged because the conclusion seems absurd.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

The term Nihilism is also applied to those philosophical systems which sweep the course clear of all incredibilities and irrationalities, but leave us bare of all our inherited spiritual possessions.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall