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preposterousness



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Perhaps by now you’ve picked up on the preposterousness in this parade of terms.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025

And yet, its polish merely supports what really makes you laugh: the flamboyant goofiness of Thede, who commits to preposterousness with deadly seriousness.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

But she’s also fully clued in to the preposterousness of a 24-year-old millionaire singer issuing prescriptions, and the soporific luxury of her lounges on the beach.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2021

Grant notes that every woman she discussed this passage with burst out laughing at the preposterousness of this idea.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2021

Five asterisks—she had made them carefully—and then the preposterousness about what she had destroyed and what she hadn't destroyed; and then more asterisks.

From A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan


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