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irrational

[ih-rash-uh-nl, -rash-nl] / ɪˈræʃ ə nl, -ˈræʃ nl /


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Peter Doomanis backed up Carpenter’s claims against Applegate and said that the man poses a serious “and escalating” threat to the singer, and has “developed a disturbing and irrational fixation” on the pop star.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Macgregor had never known her old friend to be irrational.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

“The current ‘flash-sale wars’ are typical competition under demand-side economies of scale but have escalated into irrational capital burn,” said Chen Tianhao, an associate professor at Tsinghua University.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

“I think that irrational exuberance that we saw in the dot com era … is just window dressing to cloak what, to me, is normalizing an addictive behavior in our society,” he said.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

As I entered the dark corridor, I felt an irrational surge of anger at my future self, and for the first time it wasn’t because Regan was my partner.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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