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An opening scene lays out the grotesque absurdity of the situation, as office manager Joy (Christiane Paul) delineates between culinary content and animal abuse in a meeting.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
9 Mar. 2025 -
The recent launch of Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed $TRUMP meme coin, which appeared to be an attempt to capitalize on his second inauguration, only reinforced the absurdity of this trend.—
Becca Bratcher,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Courtesy of Mojang Microsoft subsidiary Mojang's Minecraft is an odd paradox of crossplay.—
Brad Bourque,
WIRED,
21 Feb. 2025
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Zoom in: And then there's the VC paradox that began long before Trump retook office, in which investors keep enabling their top unicorns to remain private.—
Dan Primack,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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But that incongruity becomes part of The Monkey’s strange sense of humor.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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To me, their beauty derives in part from their incongruity with the sky’s naturally occurring features.—
Kate Folk,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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And the final irony of it all is the speaker was right in the beginning.—
ABC NEWS,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2025
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But Stewart didn’t miss a beat, continuing to point out the irony of subsidies for wildly profitable companies whose workers don’t earn enough to live on.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
25 Feb. 2025
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And at the heart of these contradictions is the constant tension over whether or not Meghan really wants to be royalty.—
Louis Staples,
Rolling Stone,
8 Mar. 2025
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Incisive writers about higher education have pointed out that the American university is a bundle of contradictions held in an uneasy balance that miraculously works.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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In a move that perfectly encapsulates the peculiarities of our times, Donald Trump launched a meme coin on January 17th, 2025, just a few days before his presidential inauguration.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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Underlying that peculiarity was the extensive use of the simple, robust, and reliable Geneva drive, originally developed centuries ago for clocks, but now adapted for linear and rotary motions that had to be smooth and precisely locked in at the end points.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
27 Nov. 2024
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Lower spoke with Variety about the pivotal episode, from the powerful moment that Helly reclaims her body to the complex dichotomy between her innie and outie characters.—
Katcy Stephan,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2025
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Speaking on a panel devoted to French savior faire, Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode executive president Pascal Morand remarked on the dichotomy of the two seemingly divergent tracks at opposite ends of the Porte de Versailles convention center.—
Rhonda Richford,
WWD,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Illogicality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illogicality. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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