nonsensical

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There is always a culture that has something nonsensical about it.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

Spoofing manipulates that system, causing the affected ship to send a fake, or even nonsensical, location -- meaning that ships could appear to be on land in Iran or the Emirates.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

“When the IRS wrote the rules back in 1988, they obviously could not have anticipated the nonsensical situation with cryptocurrency, a publicly traded asset that nonetheless is not necessarily a ‘security.’

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

So to pull the rug from under him, having made signings on the manager's recommendation, would seem nonsensical.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

I read over the email and giggled at the nonsensical paragraph of letters and numbers and symbols at the end, courtesy of Fig’s rump.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas