irony
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“It’s this crazy balance of irony that we have to exist in,” Lynn said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
In a stroke of irony, Google’s deep-learning division, Google Brain, had deployed chatbots internally since 2020.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The label’s growing popularity presents a certain irony for a project founded partly as a critique of fashion’s excesses: Matières Fécales is now luxury fashion itself.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Some see a dark irony: Five years ago, an exasperated President Andrés Manuel López Obrador bemoaned that a corrupt customs regime had allowed organized crime to take over land and maritime ports of entry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
“Like a banana peel, only with bad taste and irony thrown in.”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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
Juneteenth, though, is awash in ironies, both naturally occurring and of our own making.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
“In this irony of ironies, when we could all be reunited in our homeland for the first time in 44 years, I wasn’t invited.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
The strange dynamics of their friendship and the dark ironies of Mr. Boyson’s imagination build to an ending worthy of a Martin Scorsese picture: perfectly bleak and a little bit funny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Whether we call them coincidences, synchronicities, or ironies, however, these occurrences are much more common than most people realize.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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