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Adjective
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The 30-year-old actor’s longevity is clearly due to his willingness to fully commit to his characters, no matter how ridiculous.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
27 May 2025 -
As Yankees first baseman Paul Goldschmidt looped a single over the infield and into short right, the sublime gave way to ridiculous.—
Denver Post,
Denver Post,
26 May 2025
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Granted, there’s a minor farcical streak that offers the film a bit of an escape hatch.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
24 May 2025
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The narrative the Knicks brought in Anunoby and Bridges to match up with Tatum and Brown looked farcical during the regular season.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
8 May 2025
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Using your body to brace doors and windows Those who have been through major hurricanes may tell you of the surreal visual of watching their doors and windows bending to the pressure from the winds.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2025
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Leaving aside the slightly surreal notion that all this hullaballoo is happening over a truffle pig, Sarnoski drops a number of visual hints as to the metaphorical nature of this quest.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
28 May 2025
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Obtaining a permit to fly a drone in Nepal as a foreigner was a somewhat Kafkaesque exercise in patience.—
Ben Ayers,
Outside Online,
6 May 2025
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These are intentional Kafkaesque problems that the Trump Administration is creating.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
29 Apr. 2025
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His commitment to authenticity is so extreme that the resultant footage is, often, ludicrous.—
Tyler Foggatt,
New Yorker,
24 May 2025
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His batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is a ludicrous .472, and the all-time record is .423, set by Babe Ruth in 1923.—
Daniel R. Epstein,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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But far from being laughable, these behavioral stereotypes are the external manifestations of big internal shifts, many of them linked to the effects of fluctuating hormones on the brain.—
Andrea Kane,
CNN Money,
21 May 2025
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To characterize that as an attack on free speech is laughable.—
Naperville Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2025
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“Alice-in-Wonderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Alice-in-Wonderland. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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