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This hate against transgender people is so ridiculous.—
John Russell,
People.com,
28 Mar. 2025 -
Even in witnessing how ridiculous — and dangerous — the rivalry is, Cherry ultimately isn’t brave enough to make a change.—
Maggie Fremont,
EW.com,
25 Mar. 2025
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It’s smartly written, festooned with quirky business, farcical situations, droll asides.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps the incessantly farcical campaigns of Manchester United and Spurs, who sit just above them in the table, have taken the focus away.—
Tim Spiers,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
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The note kicked off a surreal, contentious exchange between Williams and Grenell, which the former shared screenshots of on Instagram.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2025
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There followed a surreal half-time chat between Chapman and Poyet about his dismissal, with the game relegated to a sideshow, as fellow pundit Efan Ekoku shifted awkwardly in his seat.—
Tom Burrows,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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In a particularly Kafkaesque explanation for why some of the Venezuelan migrants who have no criminal records were targeted for arrest and deportation, government lawyers argued in court that their lack of a criminal record is in itself cause for concern.—
Nisha Whitehead,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2025
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But Ned was declared dead last month by the Social Security Administration, which led him and his wife on a Kafkaesque quest to prove there’s life left in this salty old Seattle seadog yet.—
Matthew J. Friedman,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But this ludicrous 1943 espionage plot involving a corpse, fake papers and amazing good fortune also lends itself to absurdity.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2025
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But that’s not the end of the bag’s claims, which grow more humorously ludicrous.—
Lily Templeton,
WWD,
13 Mar. 2025
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Yet after the 90+ minutes of action on Sunday, that idea seems simply laughable.—
Adam Digby,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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That’s a sentence that would have been laughable just a couple of years ago.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Alice-in-Wonderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Alice-in-Wonderland. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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