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as in specious
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Recent Examples of sophistic
The characters are treated with odd touches of realism and their sophistic arguments are stingingly psychologized.
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Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sophistic
Adjective
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These days, those sorts of proclamations tend to feel more specious than ever.Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Media lawyers now fear that Trump will ramp up the deployment of subpoenas, specious lawsuits, court orders, and search warrants to seize reporters’ notes, devices, and source materials.David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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The lines — in banana yellows, tangerine oranges, cranberry reds — twist and turn and suggest an irrational understanding of how the universe works.Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2024
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To prevent yourself from imposing irrational penalties, set up house rules that outline logical consequences in advance.Leslie Garisto Pfaff, Parents, 12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Curiosity In The Billable Hour World In a world where every minute counts, taking what may feel like the long way around can seem illogical.Hunter McMahon, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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This is a holiday movie, so Avery and Logan decide to handle this situation in the most illogical way possible.Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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That will in turn spread on social media, which often plays a disproportional role in boosting these disinformation efforts by providing nearly unlimited platforms for unfiltered content and fallacious and deceptive claims.Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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But hard evidence in both our nation’s history and our present shows that this reasoning is fallacious.Ana Raquel Minian, TIME, 30 May 2024
Adjective
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Left in the dust ‘Cruise’ driverless robot taxis are seen at a parking lot as California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revokes its self-driving car permit and citing ‘unreasonable risk to public safety’ in San Francisco, California, USA on October 24, 2023.Kristian Burt, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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To determine whether those amounts posed an unreasonable risk of harm, the agency compared them to a specific benchmark — the highest concentration of formaldehyde measured by government monitors in outdoor air between 2015 and 2020.Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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Southampton have used 31 players this season, at least three more than any other club, a number which includes three different goalkeepers, all of whom have been the fall guy in misguided passing sequences.Michael Cox, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
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Police arrested misguided former Louvre employee Vincenzo Perugia, who was under the mistaken belief that the painting belonged to Italy and was among those stolen by Napoleon.Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Sophistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sophistic. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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