surd

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Adjective
  • On the irrational front, Cramer pointed to recent IPOs such as Circle, Figma and Bullish, that each saw explosive gains after their debuts.
    Ali McCadden, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But exactly the opposite needs to happen: the patient needs to enact her struggle in the room, to be messy, irrational, resentful, out of control.
    Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Further, this assumes AI systems are actually free from the biases present in their training data, which is illogical.
    Luis E. Romero, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Other red flags include excessive washing, and avoidance of certain toys or places due to fears and rituals that seem illogical or disconnected from the situation.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The same economists who believe in the same fallacious economic notions?
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
  • There might be a bigger market for these products, and more consumers might be immune to the fallacious argument that they’re overly processed, if more people were persuaded of the ills of factory farming.
    Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Adjective
  • State of Ohio et al. v. NCAA (2024): A coalition of states challenged the NCAA’s remaining restrictions on transfers, arguing that the adjusted rule still imposed unreasonable restraint on athletes.
    Nick LoMaglio, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • That doesn’t seem like an unreasonable body count for someone who’s about to default on his mortgage — someone who’s already suffered the indignity of being forced to cancel his family’s Netflix account.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The speech drew death threats and charges of antisemitism—an imbecilic response, and also a pointed reminder of Germany’s relentless crackdown on criticism of Israel.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
  • But Newsom was voted into office by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, and he’s handled the unprecedented dual challenges of COVID-19 and climate change reasonably well and far better than the imbecile Trump.
    Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
Adjective
  • In the days depicted in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, thoughtless incarceration of the mentally ill was too common.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
  • Even the most robust firewalls can be rendered ineffective with a single thoughtless click.
    Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.
    Daniel Jackson, Allure, 18 July 2017
  • Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.
    Andy Benoit, The MMQB, 10 July 2017
Adjective
  • And jingoism, idiotic, is not patriotism.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Mar. 2025
  • But, here, the characters suffer from the horror film syndrome of making one idiotic decision after another because that’s what the film requires to send the action in its intended direction.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Surd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surd. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.

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