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laughably



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Some of the book’s best advice might seem laughably obvious.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

“So this notion that anyone got rid of Gail to help any client is laughably stupid on its face.”

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

To call it hypocritical is laughably inadequate and chutzpah doesn't even begin to describe it.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2025

Like many in her home country, Strauss became aware of Gibson around the time she granted a disastrous, laughably evasive interview to Australia’s “60 Minutes” in 2015.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

And after we discovered irony, whenever we came across any laughably bad work, we’d go: “Oh yes! Straight to the Gallery with that one!”

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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