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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

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

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

Then the potential enemy is tempted to submit on points of dispute rather than unleash a global confrontation, which the aura of irrationality has made plausible.

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

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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