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irrationality

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


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America's top banker Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of US bank JP Morgan, said he was worried, and Google boss Sundar Pichai told the BBC there was "irrationality" in the current AI boom.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

At least one fellow, however, thought the addition represented a surrender to the forces of superstition and irrationality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 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

It’s simply a matter of taking advantage of structural market irrationality.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 26, 2025

Truly effective nuclear bluffing, however, includes occasional postures of irrationality, a distancing from the horrors of nuclear war.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

It was affirmed that, to a degree of more than skeptic scorn, Bannadonna had been without sympathy for any of the vain-glorious irrationalities of his time.

From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville


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