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theater of the absurd

NOUN
play about illogical
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To pretend otherwise is to deprive words of meaning and to live in the theater of the absurd.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

It would appear Rolovich and Fahling crafted the statement not in the attorney’s Kenmore, Washington offices but, rather, in a theater of the absurd.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Marine jailed for nine years last July, as the "theater of the absurd" and lacking serious evidence.

From Reuters • Jun. 16, 2021

John Sullivan, the U.S. ambassador to Moscow, called Reed's conviction "ridiculous" and an example of the "theater of the absurd."

From Fox News • Jun. 15, 2021

We are simultaneously in Shadow’s mind and the collective unconscious, wandering the vast unknown like lost lambs in a dystopian theater of the absurd.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2017



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