as in unreasonable
not using or following good reasoning
the illogical claim that playing basketball makes people taller because one sees so many tall players illogical people are likely to believe every sensational claim made on TV
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Recent Examples of illogical
Some states are in line with certain federal practices, and then some states are doing a bunch of incoherent, illogical things.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
While the lines have to go somewhere, these illogical divisions can confuse voters, Niven said.
—Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2024
The illogical implications should have given the Court pause.
—Ryan Finley, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Predictably Irrational Humans are sometimes illogical.
—Claire Therese Hemingway, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2024
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
While the lines have to go somewhere, these illogical divisions can confuse voters, Niven said.
—Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2024
The illogical implications should have given the Court pause.
—Ryan Finley, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Predictably Irrational Humans are sometimes illogical.
—Claire Therese Hemingway, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for illogical
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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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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
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On the campaign trail, Trump and his running mate, J. D. Vance, dismissed Biden’s parole program for Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Haitians, and Cubans, which is responsible for more than half a million people entering the country, as illegitimate.Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
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None of which means Hot Seat stories are illegitimate.David Whitley, The Tennessean, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Illogical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illogical. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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