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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
“I think everything comes down to social media really, and social media promotes emotional illogicality in all its forms: racism, prejudice and of course nationalism.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2018
And yet, this accusation of illogicality is only applied to AAVE, and never to other languages with negative concord.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 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
It would make a fine farce, illustrating our illogicality.
From All Things Considered by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
I also wonder whether the Budget will try to tidy up the illogicalities of the system, or simply be about raising as much as possible?
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
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
The creation of a baby is full of paradoxes and illogicalities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Atheism has nothing to do with final causes, and therefore is not concerned with defending its illogicalities.
From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Chapman Cohen
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