irony
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As a child of refugees from Hitler’s Germany and the descendent of a once-large family tree, many of whose branches were obliterated by the Holocaust, Mr. Moritz registered the diagnosis with mordant irony.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
No nation anywhere is free of racism or antisemitism, but from the Irish perspective a certain historical irony is at work here.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
The irony is not lost on Buam-dong's indignant residents.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Not that the easily impressed senators, eager to exculpate a favored man, took note of the irony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
I balk at the irony of the name.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
Among the many ironies of all this is that newly rich sports stars and celebrities have the least reason to gamble on obscure get-rich-quick schemes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Writing in The Times, Beard bemoaned that the poem's "erotic puzzles, the teasing ironies, the intriguing questions about truth and falsehood" had been replaced with "a rather ponderous Hollywood message about civilisational decline".
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
And herein lies one of the central ironies of the Windsor story today: Those who have worked with Harry in the U.S. say he would have also made a great working royal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
If that’s even 10 percent true, it has to rank as one of the cruelest historical ironies imaginable.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
Brinker’s expansive, dazed tone suggested that here was one of life’s giant ironies, “There you are!”
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Vocabulary lists containing irony
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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