nonsensical
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American Jews, exhausted by the nonsensical charge of disloyalty, have bent themselves into impressive contortions to demonstrate their bona fides as unambiguous, undivided, thoroughly unadulterated Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
There is always a culture that has something nonsensical about it.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026
Spoofing manipulates that system, causing the affected ship to send a fake, or even nonsensical, location -- meaning that ships could appear to be on land in Iran or the Emirates.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
On “Schitt’s Creek,” O’Hara portrayed Moira Rose, the family’s nonsensical matriarch and former soap star, for six seasons.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
I read over the email and giggled at the nonsensical paragraph of letters and numbers and symbols at the end, courtesy of Fig’s rump.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing nonsensical
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