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Noun
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Jibber-jabbering inanities, Cranston’s cohorts find a solution: Pour coke down his nose.—
Steve Garbarino,
HollywoodReporter,
10 July 2025 -
Adams has conditioned New Yorkers to expect so much inanity and cartoonishness that the news was greeted with a kind of glee.—
Eric Lach,
The New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2024
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Amid the absurdity, the women slowly chip away at each other’s defences – finding unexpected friendship, meaning, and a strange kind of freedom.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 July 2025
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The set piece is exhilarating, not exhausting, and the heightened absurdity of it all is part of the fun.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
3 July 2025
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Among the other eight walk-offs, the only one that can match the pure lunacy of Bailey’s was Heliot Ramos’ Little League home run, one that required the Texas Rangers to commit two throwing errors.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
9 July 2025
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Four games in, and everything’s all tied up at 2-2 after Thursday night’s lunacy, which featured Edmonton rallying to undo a 3-0 first-period deficit and Florida’s Sam Reinhart potting the tying goal with just 19.5 ticks left on the clock.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
13 June 2025
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