ironic
Example Sentences
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“Duvall’s aging face, a road map of dead ends and dry gulches, can accommodate rage or innocence or any ironic shade in between,” the film critic Richard Corliss wrote in Time magazine.
How ironic that in the same day’s edition of the Journal, this headline appeared in the Business section: “Ford Reveals $900 Million Tariff Hit.”
Such images urge an ironic interpretation of the show’s title, “Precious Moments,” which refers to a line of collectible, often Christian-themed figurines that depict cute, mostly white children with doe eyes and oversized heads.
From Los Angeles Times
"It feels almost ironic that a musical about young people navigating systems that fail to listen to them was potentially silenced by the circumstances."
From BBC
He added that it’s “a bit ironic” that the software selloff has been triggered by product launches and demos from Anthropic, Google and OpenAI.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
