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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Alice-in-Wonderland
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The 30-year-old center is averaging a rather ridiculous line of 29.8 points, 12.6 rebounds, and 10.2 assists on the season, while hitting almost 58% of his shots.—
Morten Stig Jensen,
Forbes,
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Many of the memes are ridiculous, poking fun at the Trump administration’s obvious ploy to pin the blame of any situation on DEI programs.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
20 Feb. 2025
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Led by Chairman Joe Biden, the hearings descended into a farcical attack on the most distinguished jurist of his time.—
John Seiler,
Orange County Register,
7 Feb. 2025
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Toward the end of the farcical 24-minute video As Seen on TV (1988), a Chaplinesque figure played by the actor Bill Irwin loses his grip on reality.—
Beatrice Loayza,
ARTnews.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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Taking the material beyond its original audience of one, the writer-director offers a delicious mélange of the surreal and the silly for all ages.—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Feb. 2025
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Empowering the viewer One thing Adams is unwilling to compromise on, however, is his decision to not elucidate his work, despite his surreal configurations inviting multiple interpretations.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN,
19 Feb. 2025
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This defiant and entertaining work playfully uses headshots and avatars to visualize clandestine audio recordings documenting years of Kafkaesque impositions, threats, and vital dissident art.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2025
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The plot revolves around the Black protagonist’s Kafkaesque trial before the U.S. Supreme Court for supposedly attempting to restore slavery and segregation in his small, agrarian community near Los Angeles, and our hero’s reflections on what led him to this point.—
Barbara Ellis,
The Denver Post,
3 Feb. 2025
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But McAvoy was helpless against Connor McDavid’s ludicrous speed.—
Fluto Shinzawa,
The Athletic,
15 Feb. 2025
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After last season’s ludicrous 211-186 win by the NBA’s East in Indianapolis, where the West’s Karl Anthony-Towns scored 50 points in 28 minutes, the NBA tinkered with the format for the Chase Center event.—
Jerry McDonald,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
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The other legend is the $3,000 check was a joke, an intentionally laughable amount.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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What's laughable is the NBA and NFL's recent attempts to support social causes the exact opposite of the daily onslaught of gambling ads that care not about the consequences of addiction.—
James L. Edwards III,
The Athletic,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Alice-in-Wonderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Alice-in-Wonderland. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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