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By the end of the show, the queen, Morgan said, “is wrestling with the illogicality of the system” that required such duty of her.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
And yet, this accusation of illogicality is only applied to AAVE, and never to other languages with negative concord.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2018
Yet if Allardyce can argue he got his initial decisions right, there was still an illogicality.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2018
But the articles kick-started pressure to reform, so the age of consent was raised, while, with a certain illogicality, the minimum age of marriage for girls remained 12 until 1929.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2012
This is the mechanical side of the insect, the fatum, the only thing which is able to explain the monstrous illogicality of a Pelopaeus when misled by my artifices.
From Bramble-Bees and Others by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
And although our tax system is manifestly full of anomalies and illogicalities, when it comes to pensions specifically, economists often share a broad vision of what a fiscally neutral tax system should try to do.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
He wrote: “The prophecy may be hazarded that we shall conform in time, one word in -re after another changing to -er; but we prefer in England to break with our illogicalities slowly.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2019
It is not altogether afraid of ostensible illogicalities.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2014
He would also have been wise to quick-march past a lot of the story's inherent illogicalities.
From Time Magazine Archive
On that day, too, by one of the apparent illogicalities of French politics, M. Briand's Cabinet, which had held office for the unusual period of eighteen months, resigned.
From A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
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