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irrationality

[ih-rash-uh-nal-i-tee] / ɪˌræʃ əˈnæl ɪ ti /


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“Today’s lawsuit continues the absurdity and irrationality that the industry has come to expect from the defunct organization formerly known as the HFPA.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

“A small irrationality is needed to take an oversized bet on yourself,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon has voiced similar concerns, while Google CEO Sundar Pichai said there was some "irrationality" to the AI boom.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026

But Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said Sunday that "there is no justification whatsoever for the barbarity committed," calling it "an unforgivable act of irrationality."

From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025

In the back of my mind lingered an awareness of the hideous irrationality of this situation, but at the forefront, there was only blind terror.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

But they can newly explain so many of the irrationalities that are directly a product of the digital age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Well, all the reading I do is sort of aimed at the general mission of being more compassionate toward other people's irrationalities and skeptical of my own.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024

In this way, Kirsch accepts the standard story about modernity: that ours is an era of “disenchantment” in which the old myths and irrationalities have been crushed under the boot heel of enlightened techno-science.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023

The crux of the problem, as Cowen points out, is that it’s nearly impossible to understand irrationalities without taking advantage of them.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2012

Shall these, in short, stop me from exposing the irrationalities which I see everywhere around me, and which occasion so much misery and unhappiness to my fellow-men?

From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Henry Hetherington




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