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• In this case, Tavia Nyong'o is like, that does not make sense.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• One yearns for the breakthrough, the epiphany, the point, that will make sense of it all, and thus cure it.
  — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
• Lasers make sense Lasers make a lot of sense in the vast emptiness space.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2023
• Even writing about him in the past tense doesn’t make sense.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2024
• Yeah, some of [the races] don't really make sense, right?
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 5 May 2023
• Many of the characters in The Good Half act in ways that don’t always make sense.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
• The moves make sense for a Dodgers team still trying to improve around the margins.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• But Megan’s actions and even the first half of her scene with Adam don’t make sense without that guilt.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
• One rule that does seem to make sense: Maybe don’t date men who live with an ex-partner.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Kids Are Growing Up finds Laroi beginning to make sense of bits and pieces of it all.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
• And my life can finally make sense to the people who matter to me.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• Some parts of the DMA might not make sense or withstand legal challenges.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
• Wallen and Combs make sense as the two artists to hold these two spots, as very arguably the two biggest artists in country right now.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 27 June 2023
• The idea of boosting your immune system doesn’t make sense for lots of reasons.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 23 Oct. 2023
• Here are 5 players who make sense for the Bengals to target in free agency.
  — The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2024
• As her 6-month-old lay dying in her arms, Becky Kekula struggled to make sense of how this could be.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• To the contrary, Christmas is one of the diminishing number of things that still make sense to me.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
• Take charge, speak for yourself and question anything that doesn’t make sense.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
• Around her, mourners cried and embraced and prayed and signed their names on crosses in black marker and tried to make sense of it all.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• And like past seasons, pretty much everyone is stressed out and trying to make sense of the world.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2023
• There is an expansive quality to the play’s universe that makes the length make sense.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• For many workers, the mandates just don’t make sense, and some research supports their views.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• One of the joys of working with TIME is the brand’s relentless curiosity about our world and how to make sense of it.
  — Time, 15 June 2023
• In hindsight, McDavid thinks Joann could no longer make sense of menus and was trying to mask her symptoms.
  — Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
• But even without the housing element of Measure J, the economics of the plan, like for the one in 2020, do not make sense.
  — East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• Robinson would address the latter and would make sense even if the Chargers don’t trade Austin Ekeler.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
• Like, there’s a little person inside your head who’s looking out through your eyes, trying to make sense of the world.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023
• Police have not released a motive in the shooting, and those who know Jones have struggled to make sense of what happened.
  — Justin Jouvenal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• Roku could make sense as Bronfman’s tech-forward partner, something he’s been searching for.
  — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2024
• Many struggled to make sense of the relationship’s end, which often happens in instances of unexpected loss.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024