irrational
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The faint, irrational worry that maybe I’m not who I thought I was.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
During periods of irrational exuberance, stock prices tend to rise more quickly than Wall Street’s earnings estimates.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
Like to me, acting is an irrational act.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
“The current ‘flash-sale wars’ are typical competition under demand-side economies of scale but have escalated into irrational capital burn,” said Chen Tianhao, an associate professor at Tsinghua University.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
They never worried about whether the diagonal of a square was rational or irrational, nor did they investigate the conic sections as Archimedes had.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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