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Recent Examples of unreason
Its opening paragraph: For years, many of us have noted and analyzed the phenomenon of Bush hatred — and all the unreason, hysteria, and meanness packed into it.
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Oct. 2024
Hayek’s market seems to conjure a wondrous democracy of unreason.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
The country has entered what can only be characterized as an age of unreason, with large swaths of its population embracing wild conspiracy theories.
—Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2021
Like many politicians, Khan is trying to reason with a maelstrom of unreason.
—Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
My piece began, For years, many of us have noted and analyzed the phenomenon of Bush hatred — and all the unreason, hysteria, and meanness packed into it.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 May 2023
The slaughter of 20 million people grotesquely buttressed his insistence that conscious rationality co-exists with aggressive unreason and his skepticism toward naïve narratives of inevitable social and technological progress.
—Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
With its double binds and reversals, life in a pandemic feels beholden to dream logic, to the unreason of lying awake in the dark.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
There’s a lot of collective anguish lurking under all the electronic flame-throwing, bizarre behavior on campus, and other manifestations of social unraveling and descent into unreason.
—Nr Interview, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Oct. 2024
Hayek’s market seems to conjure a wondrous democracy of unreason.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
The country has entered what can only be characterized as an age of unreason, with large swaths of its population embracing wild conspiracy theories.
—Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2021
Like many politicians, Khan is trying to reason with a maelstrom of unreason.
—Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
My piece began, For years, many of us have noted and analyzed the phenomenon of Bush hatred — and all the unreason, hysteria, and meanness packed into it.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 May 2023
The slaughter of 20 million people grotesquely buttressed his insistence that conscious rationality co-exists with aggressive unreason and his skepticism toward naïve narratives of inevitable social and technological progress.
—Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
With its double binds and reversals, life in a pandemic feels beholden to dream logic, to the unreason of lying awake in the dark.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
There’s a lot of collective anguish lurking under all the electronic flame-throwing, bizarre behavior on campus, and other manifestations of social unraveling and descent into unreason.
—Nr Interview, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreason
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Fannie’s Friends support group: Fannie’s Friends is a virtual support group for adult daughters and granddaughters caring for those living with dementia.Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2024
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Research has also shown that the drugs may reduce the risk of cognitive decline, like dementia.Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2024
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That may seem like replacing plastic in your house with solid gold, but there's method in this seeming madness – as well as the promise of not only more advanced computers, but ones that work more efficiently and can even operate in high-temperature environments that make modern chips very unhappy.New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024
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But misinformation still looms large, and the threat of the madness lingers on.Barry Levitt, TIME, 28 Nov. 2024
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The legal team for Ryan Routh, the man accused of trying to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course in September, is considering an insanity defense.Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
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That’s still a bit shy, though, of the insanity that surrounded Stanley cups at their peak.Chris Morris, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
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The mania reached critical mass on Feb. 9 when the Beatles made their hyperbole-proof debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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Aron, who has led the company through an epic series of ups and downs through a debt crisis, the catastrophe of Covid, the meme-stock and short-squeeze mania of 2020 and 2021, has largely been viewed as a folk hero.Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
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The Wizard of Oz explores the power of narratives, as almost every character is blinded by their own delusions, and can achieve their potential after believing the right kind of lie.Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
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So few had any real faith in fallout shelter delusions or duck and cover nonsense.Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Unreason.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreason. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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