irrational

Example Sentences

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“Targeting Gulf states is completely irrational, and very shortsighted.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

While the motives that drive a knight are often human, political, or both, the logic is as miraculous and irrational as a muddy hedge knight crawling out from under a fallen dragon.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

Freight was another sector that some analysts said was subjected to irrational AI fears last week.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026

Just before Christmas, the court ruled that the government's assessment of damage to national security "should have been accepted by the coroner" unless it was plainly irrational or there was no supporting evidence.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

In their fascinating book Judgement under Uncertainty, Tversky and Kahneman describe a different variety of the seemingly irrational innumeracy that characterizes many of our most critical decisions.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos