Scott Jennings: The Democrats' take on the economy was laughable Listening to the Democratic candidates describe the US like it's in the throes of another Great Depression was laughable.
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Fact is ... our Kylie sources say the rumor's laughable.
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It was laughable – and, in fact, I did laugh.
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" The majority leader, Mitch McConnell, called the complaint "laughable.
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" Zinke has brushed off the claim, calling it "laughable.
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This may well be laughable in a few years too.
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Some people might think some of the proposals are laughable.
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Somehow these names are much less laughable now, aren't they?
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For general audiences, Thanos came across as, at first, laughable.
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The hypocrisy would be laughable if it wasn't so frustrating.
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Which is almost laughable, given how manipulative it can be!
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Questioned about this, Mr Abdel Aal offered a laughable defence.
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Some have been compelling, others vaguely plausible, still others laughable.
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"Uh, just the load time was laughable," Andy Grignon says.
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By modern standards the capabilities of both tablets were laughable.
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"It's almost laughable to be honest," Stemkoski told CBC News.
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"I think it's laughable," Cassidy said of Sanders's forthcoming bill.
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The app is stripped down to an almost laughable degree.
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"I think delivery drones is a laughable idea," adds Caccia.
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Except the whole exercise is laughable, from top to bottom.
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Bluntly, their history demonstrates that this is laughable at best.
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Indeed, there has even been the laughable suggestion that Sen.
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And few have done more to make harassment seem laughable.
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But Tillerson says reports he's being pushed out are laughable.
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His testimony devolved into a laughable defense of the indefensible.
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Moreover, this line of attack is laughable coming from Trump.
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First, the idea that Trump needed an Evangelical is laughable.
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Some find the idea of objectivity in such situations laughable.
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Any fiction to the contrary or "fake news" is laughable.
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Her ignorance would be laughable if it weren't so disturbing.
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"That's so far from the truth it's laughable," he wrote.
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Some propaganda is laughable and tragic at the same time. ■
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The idea of a still life would be almost laughable.
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" Tillerson also addressed the reports on Friday, calling them "laughable.
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Stein called the request "laughable" in a tweet this week.
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And by laughable, I mean it will crush your spirit.
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"It would be laughable if it wasn't so serious," Schiff said.
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The idea that this is some kind of "isolationism" is laughable.
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For people staying in New York City, that idea is laughable.
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The bondage throughout the show was laughable and at times dangerous.
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Ms Little finds the idea that she is being exploited laughable.
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And it would be laughable if it didn't hurt so much.
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In 6.43, the idea of a 5.3-inch phone was laughable.
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So are two decades of laughable inaction around plunging scoring rates.
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This would be a laughable notion given the history of Congress.
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" Smith cast doubt on Giuliani's assertions that the dossier is "laughable.
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" Ms. Dyer said the information "has been so forthcoming it's laughable.
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It's as laughable as taking your children to a public execution.
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It is laughable to think this could come from the Secretary.
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It would be laughable if it weren't so Orwellian and scary.
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Sure, every administration indulges in self-serving narratives and laughable spin.
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We know it when we hear the almost-laughable electric guitar.
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The notion that Rosenstein is overseeing that investigation has become laughable.
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Lesbian porn is so unrealistic in general that it is laughable.
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It's laughable that Donald Trump was concerned about corruption in Ukraine.
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It's laughable, that is, if we really believed all lives mattered.
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This would be laughable if the reality was not so tragic.
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Their arguments for denying people their day in court are laughable.
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Trump's claim would be laughable if Social Security weren't so important.
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A hurricane of random memories makes natural sleep a laughable concept.
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Ryabkov said the "attempts to frighten us with sanctions" were laughable.
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He finds the concept of money laughable; it is just useless paper.
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Personally, I think the idea of FCA building the Apple Car laughable.
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It's some next-level sneakiness that the great bowerbird would find laughable.
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So the concept that Uber alone would double its output is laughable.
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Authenticity in the way Mark is trying to achieve it is laughable.
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The latest example only happens to be the most laughable so far.
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But you don't want them to come across as stupid or laughable.
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"I have to say I found Ayn Rand's philosophy laughable," Moore added.
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It wasn't very long ago that bitcoin felt nascent, laughable and small.
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The notion of Madiba selling out black South Africans is also laughable.
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Twitter also made note of a pretty laughable error by the government.
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"No, that's -- that's laughable, right?" he told the Richmond-based news station.
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They brought up emails from five years ago—it was almost laughable.
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Laughable. They say don't meet your idols... That they let you down.
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"This whole situation, the fact that it's arisen, is laughable," he said.
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What if the pattern and size of his charitable contributions are laughable?
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There is nothing laughable about the 22018 Elantra GT Sport, nothing cheap.
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"I want to say it felt laughable," he said of the contract.
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The Atlantic called "It's All Good" the "Bible of Laughable Hollywood Neuroticism."
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There&aposs a heartwarming moment in "American Sniper" that quickly turns laughable.
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Trump's claim that he "respectfully" let Mueller do his job is laughable.
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It's almost laughable because most of it is so mundane and pointless.
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Is the idea of craft being something worth fighting for laughable now?
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But many friends thought this would be incredibly risky, even somewhat laughable.
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Kuo called the explanation laughable and said there was no services department.
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It's almost laughable to believe that the president's proposal would deter them.
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His answers on Cuba and Russia election meddling were just laughable, though.
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Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said last week the freeze was "laughable".
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" Jennifer Homendy, one of three NTSB board members, called the setup "laughable.
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""I feel the company&aposs driver support system is laughable at best.
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It would almost be laughable if the consequences were not so serious.
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Which is what makes his whole "fake news" conceit so laughable. 229.
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But Daniels' projection was so low as to be laughable in retrospect.
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" Xochitl Hinojosa, a spokeswoman for the Democratic committee, called the suggestion "laughable.
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His office secretly coordinated with the source of this laughable impeachment inquiry.
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He settled on something so banal it seems almost laughable: parenting goals.
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I mean, it's laughable from when they leak whatever metaphor you want.
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The public transportation is excruciating and the design of the city is laughable.
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The irony of this would be laughable if it weren't so goddamn bleak.
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The range on the financial disclosure report makes that sort of specificity laughable.
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The polygon breakup can get laughable and the camera guy is an idiot.
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Equifax's security was laughable, and when made aware of its lapse, did nothing.
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But we're so far on the other end of the spectrum, it's laughable.
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He is so weak on illegal immigration it's laughable, and everybody knows it.
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"It's laughable," adds the source of the Kings' denials in the past week.
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My later attempts at escaping from Mom's safety blanket were equally as laughable.
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The idea that large tobacco companies might advance public health seems almost laughable.
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Of course, they're laughable today, but they signified the birth of centralized computing.
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They're absurd and it's just laughable when you get that context and distance.
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Raymond Holt (Andre Baugher) is monotone and strait-laced to a laughable degree.
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While a fan might uncover a carefully concealed, laughable subtle reference or allusion.
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The definition of a "slump" for the Warriors in 2018 is pretty laughable.
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So Chris Christie is on all the lists for FBI director. Laughable. Outrageous.
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To the Editor: Your article about Donald Trump and women is truly laughable.
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The prospect of receiving a raise or a bonus was all but laughable.
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It would have been laughable if it weren't so bad for our nation.
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The idea that Montenegro would start a war with Russia is itself laughable.
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Avenatti says it is "absolutely laughable" that Trump was unaware of the agreement.
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Current polling (which is so premature as to be almost laughable) favors Biden.
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It's laughable, but not very funny when you stop and think about it.
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Mike Pence won Tuesday night's vice-presidential debate on style points is laughable.
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It's laughable to imagine a primary classroom with students placed six feet apart.
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But in new docs, Johnny says it's laughable they'd try to sue him.
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The idea that Hollywood functions by rewarding excellence is laughable on its face.
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"This defense would be laughable if this issue wasn't so serious," Crow countered.
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In turn, the notion that Lyndon Johnson showed "restraint" in Vietnam is laughable.
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But even 10 percent might seem like a laughable notion at this stage.
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The "cease and desist" letter from Trump's private attorney, Charles Harder, was laughable.
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Yet, the idea that tax policies must affect each state equally is laughable.
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Avenatti has said it's "absolutely laughable" that Trump was unaware of the agreement.
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"Their newfound concern for the high tax burden is laughable," Mr. McCarthy said.
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When complaints of shortages started popping up in it in 2011, they were laughable.
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Laughable." He continued: "They say don't meet your idols… That they let you down.
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"Either online dating is laughable, or it's not part of the story," said Stewart.
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The difference in their respective stakes would be laughable if Elizabeth's weren't so horrifying.
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The series tends to view caustic selfishness as a laughable side-effect of youth.
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He considered the suggestion laughable, preposterous, pick your own adjective to describe such crazy.
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Luis Gutiérrez said the deal the Trump administration was trying to push was laughable.
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But his proposal isn't that unwieldy, and it seems almost laughable in its reasonableness.
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That was a laughable goal, and we finally leave at about 2:30 a.m.
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"I would say it's laughable to say they take domestic violence seriously," he said.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That&aposs a laughable proposition, but nothing new coming from this president.
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The idea that there was some kind of mysterious black operations happening became laughable.
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But the ratio of women to men in the tech world is still laughable.
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Miller's attempts to justify those actions by the President are, in a word, laughable.
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Women's intemperance, after all, is laughable when it isn't a sad burden on men.
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Obviously, people are ripping into it ... calling it tone-deaf, laughable and downright moronic.
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"You know what's so f—ing laughable right now?" she told producer Larry Musnik.
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The system was slow, the tablet hardware was laughable, and the platform was archaic.
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Yet North Korea is not alone in thinking efforts to tighten sanctions are "laughable".
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Manchin's wife, who attended a Chamber of Commerce candidate breakfast here, calls that laughable.
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The priorities of Republican lawmakers would be laughable were they not so incredibly cruel.
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Trump as an authoritarian who crushes free speech is a laughable inversion of reality.
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The arguments to keep it open are weak at best and laughable at worst.
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"Donald Trump talking about being opposed to trade deals is almost laughable," said Trumka.
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"The Equifax settlement is laughable," Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement to Motherboard.
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" As for the upset about Trump's threat to North Korea, Carafano says it's "laughable.
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Who gets to define what's laughable and what's acceptable in this sphere of things?
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The very idea that large companies can't dictate what happens online is laughable now.
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Tolar said he bought 1,500 doses of hydroxychloroquine for a "laughable" amount of money.
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When these symptoms are occurring, the idea of being able to work is laughable.
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It would be laughable to compare my drapelike smock to my grandmother's white gown.
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It's laughable that one bad weekend, month, or season spurs doomsday talk about cinema.
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Tolar said he bought 1,500 doses of hydroxychloroquine for a "laughable" amount of money.
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The idea that women are "judged" against other women is so archaic it's laughable.
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In response, Connie Loizos argues that the distinction is, in a word, laughable. 3.
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The flavor is intense, clearly artificial, and so sweet that we found it laughable.
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Rather, my dreams were so humble that normal people would have considered them laughable.
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That makes the 2628:28503 yuan-to-dollar exchange rate Trump accepted just laughable.
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The notion that this is a good-faith effort to make peace is laughable.
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The justification — a much smaller, long-ago power grab by state Democrats — is laughable.
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To students of color, the idea that this history could be erased was laughable.
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The arguments raised against Friedman would be laughable if they weren't so widely repeated.
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Netanyahu said Rouhani's suggestion that Israel was involved was "not only false — it's laughable".
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It's actually quite laughable how far justification can get you when you don't really care.
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The script is terrible, the visual effects are laughable, and everyone involved should be embarrassed.
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Just over a year ago, the notion of passing a consumer privacy law was laughable.
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The odds that Mexico would take up such draconian measures to curb corruption are laughable.
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The "Updated Network Security/Firewall" seems somewhat laughable and, unfortunately, "Encryption" has very little importance.
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Majed al-Ansari, a political sociology professor at Qatar University, called it laughable and unrealistic.
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After Thackery states it so plainly, the movie's whole premise becomes laughable in its specificity.
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Context: Voice controls have always made the most sense but using them can be laughable.
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The precise grounds for annulling a ballot the electoral board had previously endorsed are laughable.
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As Sarah Kliff notes, the idea that health insurance costs $249 a year is laughable.
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The first had a laughable design flaw whereby a zipper blocked one of the clasps.
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If that seems laughable, consider this: Luxembourg is one of the world's largest satellite manufacturers.
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But come on, the selective media outrage is laughable, it&aposs also kind of sad.
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His nomination was frankly laughable and a demonstration of utter cronyism by the Trump administration.
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The idea that the RNC would issue a similar autopsy report in 2017 is laughable.
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And, in case you'd forgotten, it's also laughable that they're pumping out fake crowd noise.
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"It's laughable you could claim this is about national security or community safety," he said.
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Twitter's trailing 12-month price-to-sales ratio now stands at a laughable 4.7 vs.
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That the government would consider either detention center to be a childcare facility is laughable.
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Some punishments levied by member states against substantiated abusers were "laughable," Khare said on Friday.
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The account that follows would render this claim laughable if it were not so sad.
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The notion that people could build businesses around talking frankly about sex was, likewise, laughable.
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It's laughable, because logistically that wall will never be built as he has described it.
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Trump's promise to "end our government corruption" by putting corporate lobbyists in charge is laughable.
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These vacuous appeals fly in the face of facts and are simultaneously laughable and infuriating.
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The situations they faced — often laughable, sometimes infuriating, always daunting — today seem hard to believe.
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When you live in a cramped apartment, the idea of having a garden sounds laughable.
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Shamefacedly, and reticent to talk about these laughable consequences of our gargantuan bender, we slept.
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The action scenes, when they aren't CGI'd to the point of being laughable, are forgettable.
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Ms. Guevara said the notion of the bar endorsing Ms. Mekelburg's Twitter activity is laughable.
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The concern about territorial claims to the South China Sea, at this moment, looks laughable.
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"This defense would be laughable if this issue wasn't so serious," Crow countered on Friday.
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All of which makes Collins' feeble attempt to defend her vote for acquittal frankly laughable.
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"It's disgraceful and laughable," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Friday.
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White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham called the notion "laughable" in a tweet on Monday.
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In the course of the play we dismiss the villagers as laughable, ridiculous and shameful.
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And by the way, the comment that the FBI was biased against Hillary Clinton is laughable.
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DHILLON: Well somebody needs to give him smelling salts, the selective outrage, the hypocrisy is laughable.
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The threat to cancel White House press briefings in exchange for written, prepared responses is laughable.
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His laughable claim, still to be found on Twitter, that climate change is a Chinese conspiracy.
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It's almost laughable to imagine today the way that classical computers remembered things during their infancy.
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Hindsight, research, and common sense make the blood-type diet almost laughable in its intricate illogic.
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Tasha: I mean, Black Mirror has always been so grim that it's sometimes a little laughable.
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There was Wall again, the engine and leader of his team, giving up laughable backdoor cuts.
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It's very laughable...Whether it's friends, or whether it's a cardboard box, I'm always having fun.
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For those of us on the outside these stories can seem absurd and at times laughable.
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The end result is a vocal delivery that sounds distinctly uninspiring, robotic, and at times laughable.
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That's been labelled "laughable" by Sowa, who hadn't been contacted by the company as of Monday.
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As laughable of a character as Rotondo may be, his story is a fundamentally sad one.
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COULSON: We -- It&aposs laughable, I did Iran-Contra that involved a lot of classified material.
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RCA's laughable $99 Cambio which I found among Walmart's Black Friday deals is a perfect example.
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It works great for the sake of getting the message across, but the images are laughable.
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"If it was not so ridiculous, it would be laughable what's going on inside," he said.
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Although the imbalance is laughable and impossible, it introduces the indisputable truth that time is subjective.
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In July 2016, beauty blogger Jeely (no last name) took a viral trend to laughable heights.
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Most Republican gripes that an impeachment of President Trump would "overturn" the 22001 election are laughable.
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The league's argument about the potential harm arising from a flood of young players was laughable.
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Theoretically apolitical, Charles has sought to influence governments in ways that are both laughable and worrisome.
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"It is foolish to bring back laughable, outdated technology to suit your political agenda," Schwarzenegger says.
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"It would be laughable but for the real humanitarian suffering Russia has inflicted," the official said.
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The letter from Trump's lawyers was called laughable and ridiculous for its lack of legal bite.
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In October 2011, after the Berlin Marathon, sports writer David Epstein said the statistics were laughable.
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But critics online were pretty skeptical of what seemed like a laughable attempt at reputation-washing.
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It would be laughable, if so many people didn't vehemently insist that the myth has meaning.
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And while Pam Bondi's performance may seem laughable to most, it's been sufficient for Senate Republicans.
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Even efforts like that one were "pretty laughable," according to Timothy Hade of Scale Microgrid Solutions.
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Diplomacy, as he just showed with his laughable, incoherent dance with North Korea, is much harder.
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As noted separately, Trump's excuse for suddenly and inexplicably halting assistance to Ukraine is utterly laughable.
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It's laughable to think that those regulations won't be rolled back by corporatists in Congress later.
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The idea of impartial senators is laughable to many Republicans, who note presidential candidates like Sen.
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Finally, the notion that manipulating cheap wine to mimic high-end bottles benefits consumers is laughable.
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It would be laughable to suggest that his loss is not a blow to New England.
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Your editorial's insinuation that she would try to cash in as secretary of education is laughable.
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Suddenly, the idea of women traveling in Saudi Arabia went from laughable to very, very plausible.
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In an era where the GOP is led by Trump, that seems like a laughable fantasy.
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But the ships of today are exponentially so much more powerful as to make the comparison laughable.
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As drinkers become thirstier and thirstier, the advice we receive from above gets more and more laughable.
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Someone on Ebay is asking for the laughable asking price of $888.88 for a set of five.
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That's laughable compared to the drama that the iconic character is grappling with during Riverdale's upcoming season.
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But, in a laughable twist of fate, the success of Baby Cobra made Wong a household name.
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And he's unsparing in mocking them, in terms of making his antagonists not just ruthless, but laughable.
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He dismisses such criticism as "hateful…laughable…a clear failure", while cheering the Democrats' mid-term results.
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It's especially egregious, considering that these folks are being paid a laughable pittance to move: 25,226 yuan.
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De Lima denied allegations she colluded with drugs gangs, calling them "very outlandish, very outrageous" and "laughable".
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The Dem attacks on Kavanaugh's 2016 speech today are laughable, and show a total lack of understanding.
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That they are suddenly giving a sanctimonious lecture on ending stigma and listening to data is laughable.
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John found that laughable, since Aaron didn't teach him a damn thing ... so, the "intern" struck back.
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The idea that Zuckerberg wouldn't be familiar with what was a major privacy scandal is frankly laughable.
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President Trump's claim he's being treated worse than any politician in history is almost laughable to Rep.
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But something about the way it so readily compared it to racism seems oversimplified and darkly laughable.
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It was laughable to watch beam-in-their-own-eye Democrats sitting in judgment of Kavanaugh: Sen.
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" Ride-hailing app drivers union the Independent Drivers Guild in a statement called the lawsuit's claims "laughable.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the suit "laughable" and "absurd" on the company's recent earnings conference call.
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It's laughable to believe that the word, let alone its reality, could apply to a black man.
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Expecting the media to treat the Comey firing as anything less than a historic moment is laughable.
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Try explaining that to opportunistic government lawyers who file lawsuits with laughable names like United States v.
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But for many twenty- and thirtysomethings, the idea that too much money could be problematic seems laughable.
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It's a laughable notion, with no basis in fact, but federal judges have generally just nodded along.
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This is what the major journals would like reporters to believe — but it is kind of laughable.
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The six degrees of separation between high culture (the gallery) and the city streets are almost laughable.
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Even the notion that there could be consent in a situation where someone is handcuffed … is laughable.
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Khan said it is laughable when people share stories of how her fake testimonials had inspired them.
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That prediction sounds odd if not laughable to modern ears accustomed to the legislature surrendering its authority.
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Jeff Sessions is beyond laughable, and to me the crime is that the whole room wasn't laughing.
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From friends to family members to the press, people labeled the idea I had as something laughable.
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NBC reportedly re-edited the piece to look tougher than the laughable preview that was originally provided.
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On its face, Kim's claim that he was unaware of Warmbier's arrest and treatment is beyond laughable.
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These days, a casual fan taking a trip to the record store is an almost laughable idea.
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" In response, one agent told Motherboard, "Saying we will continue under strict safety guidelines is honestly laughable.
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"And the idea that privatizing the war is going to save money is certainly laughable," she continued.
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"What's really laughable is you think you're going to stop illegal immigration by constructing walls and fences."
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Three hours and several beverages later, our whiskey fueled passion found us tangled in a laughable embrace.
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Labeling him the heir of nationalist heroes like Italy's Giuseppe Garibaldi and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah is laughable.
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That may be true, but it sounds almost laughable when you start to learn about the project.
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If the illusion of a Great Britain is laughable, the question is, what does the laughter sound like?
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But the idea of trying to compromise with a pure, mindless, almost virus-like evil sounds laughable. Right?
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"A penny is laughable," said Aron Carlson, a corn farmer and president of the Illinois Corn Growers Association.
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Some of its specs are laughable compared to today's standards — take for example the 2-megapixel rear camera.
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The money that new servers make is laughable compared to what Per Se charges for food and wine.
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In today's brutish political climate, the civility of the so-called Hollywood elite doesn't seem quite so laughable.
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All that matters is that it hates the law and has a (laughable) argument for casting it aside.
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He says he could defeat him in a fair election, an assertion Putin's supporters have said is laughable.
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As my colleague Constance Grady has pointed out, the idea that theater exists outside of politics is laughable.
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Searching for this dream in the Siri we know seems a little laughable, given the assistant's many limitations.
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Netanyahu has praised Iranian anti-government protesters, while denying as "laughable" accusations that Israel was behind the demonstrations.
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"These cookie-cutter reactions from companies who are raking in profits from repair monopolies are laughable," he said.
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In other words, the idea that kinky sex is a creation of modern technology is laughable at best.
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This moral equivalence between aggressor and victim would have been laughable if the circumstances hadn't been so tragic.
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In both cases, they are taking something that is transparently not serious and treating it with laughable respect.
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" Baldwin continued, "I'm the worst with technology anyway, so the idea of me altering an image is laughable.
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Its Madoff-esque accounting tricks are so brazen that they would be laughable if they weren't so horrific.
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Denying that Facebook has become a media outlet is just laughable, and it is long past requiring regulation.
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While its ideas might be laughable to most, the creation of doubt is a pernicious and rhetorical agent.
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Some of Cotton's claims are laughable; for instance, he says there have been no hearings on this bill.
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Demons and popping out of mirrors suddenly becomes awkward or even laughable without the ubiquitous jolt of noise.
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Pressure for further sanctions was "laughable", North Korea has said, vowing to continue to strengthen its nuclear power.
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To me, it's always been laughable that anyone would ask my parents if they would have preferred sons.
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Pence ripped the story, calling it "laughable and absurd" to suggest he would run for president in 2020.
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With eight months of Trump's presidency in the rear-view mirror, that possibility seems both quaint and laughable.
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In the case of restaurants, it's laughable how little effort it would require to pull it from menus.
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So, sexual harassment at the hands of a woman is deemed not only more forgivable but almost laughable.
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"His assertion that he has not had a fair hearing is laughable," the judge told Westminster Magistrates' Court.
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Projections that would have been laughable weeks ago become interesting just for being different from the ossified consensus.
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Consumer advocates all-too-familiar with AT&T's behavior find the company's sudden dedication to consumer welfare laughable.
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" Asked Friday about reports of the White House orchestrating his departure, Tillerson told CNN's Michelle Kosinski: "It's laughable.
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Surgery, weird injuries, witches' hexes: The Mets' season was near laughable in the extravagance of its bad luck.
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And if someone makes a point you think is laughable, that doesn't mean you should laugh out loud.
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From what I observed, it would seem laughable to question the abilities of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders.
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The administration's claim that it is simply seeking to protect voting rights is not only laughable, but contemptible.
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"That is laughable," said Mohammed Alyahya, the editor in chief of Al Arabiya English, a Saudi news site.
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These instances, excuses and explanations are not only laughable, they're insulting to the intelligence of the American people.
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"I find this explanation from attorney Cohen to be laughable," Michael Avenatti told CNN's Don Lemon on Monday.
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She called it "absurd" and said the notion that her brother would dress in women's clothing was laughable.
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And on one level it's laughable, on another it is exactly why we got to do something different.
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The argument that the Iraq invasion was a necessary "Phase Two" in the "War on Terror" is laughable.
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Zinke has shrugged off reports of the call, saying it's "laughable" that he would threaten Alaska over healthcare.
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Reading these two articles side by side made the idea of girls working too hard at school laughable.
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This go-to phrase for troubled 1%-ers is laughable nowadays, so it's time to retire it. 12.
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It had been cheap, because that part of Brooklyn was squalid then, and the building's condition was laughable.
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And some of the attention lavished on them by top firms is almost laughable in the rearview mirror.
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From our modern perspective, the very idea seems laughable, but it was all quite serious at the time.
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As a representative exercise relevant to the concerns of a nation of 322 million people, the caucuses are laughable.
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Jon subsequently did the unthinkable, reconciling with the wildlings — a concept that was not only laughable, but called treasonous.
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Then consider Robert Byrd's laughable performance as McGregor literally hammer-fisted the back of Floyd Mayweather's head multiple times.
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But the idea that women have a voice in the public eye in any real, empowered sense remains laughable.
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Looking back, the idea that anyone believed Riggs could have beaten King is as laughable as it is condescending.
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The idea that Donald Trump's presentation will somehow undermine ISIS's appeal to its adherents is nothing short of laughable.
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"The ignorance of parents and coaches is almost laughable, but it's not—there's nothing funny about it," said Peterson.
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"It is laughable to think this could come from the Secretary," Tony Sayegh Jr., a spokesman for Mnuchin, tweeted. .
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" And Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, called the notion that this elevated Trump to the presidency "laughable" and "ridiculous.
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Beck admits that she's no good for Joe, which is laughable considering Joe has systematically killed off her friends.
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"It would be laughable but for the very real humanitarian suffering Russia has inflicted," the defense official said Wednesday.
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"The Obama administration running around and talking about meaningless sanctions until today is highly laughable," state media said Sunday.
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If you go anywhere in the world you couldn't find a worse system of running a railway, it's laughable.
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A few years ago, when cannabis culture was still very much underground, this debate probably would have been laughable.
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The company's post-IPO valuation seems laughable compared to its then-current revenues, and, naturally, to its value today.
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The CG is laughable Compounding the problem are a handful of awkward scenes that were clearly added in reshoots.
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Maybe one day we will look on this era of the mobile web as some kind of laughable nadir.
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In a follow-up post on Instagram, she said I was out of touch, which I find incredibly laughable.
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The New York prosecutors also go on a laughable diatribe about the sanctity of election laws and transparency. Really?
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All this while the latest Media Research Center study shows an overwhelming — almost laughable — negative bias against the president.
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These restrictions are particularly laughable in an era when smartphone cameras, wireless connections and social media networks are ubiquitous.
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"Ajit Pai's feeble attempt to celebrate the passing of the CRA deadline is laughable," Greer said in a statement.
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The idea that this White House isn't accessible to the press is absolutely laughable," Sanders said on "Fox & Friends.
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The idea of working hard to get ahead within the system was seen as a fool's game there, laughable.
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Though the graphics and sounds are laughable today, the success of Atari's original titles puts modern content to shame.
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Were it not for its frightening underside, the popular view of politicians would be laughable in its utter inaccuracy.
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The distortions that emerge — like the backpack full of soon-to-be-worthless cash — can seem absurd, even laughable.
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Newt Gingrich thinks the Broadway protest of Mike Pence is laughable ... because Pence walks away with all the marbles.
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When a classmate lost his father, the cursive font on the card I picked out felt laughable, even vulgar.
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Which boss looked to be the most fun to share a beer with will hopefully be a laughable standard.
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Drawn like a clown, he should be laughable, but Ware homes in on his secret hurt and dreams deferred.
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Wyden says the FTC fine was laughable, pointing to the company's stock price, which didn't see a real fluctuation.
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The baron, who crudely boasts to the Marschallin of amorous adventures with servants, suddenly seems more dangerous, less laughable.
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When that didn't work it was a laughable attempt to overturn the results of the election via faithless electors.
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Her stint as an Italian, in retrospect, feels not only laughable, but like a case of classic Hollywood whitewashing.
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Murkowski downplayed the incident, and Zinke said it was "laughable" that he would threaten Alaska over the healthcare vote.
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" McConnell pushed back against criticism of the process on Tuesday, telling reporters he found complaints on the subject "laughable.
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Adel Al Jubeir [Al Jubeir]: That's ridiculous and it's not the first time he said something ridiculous and laughable.
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It's quite laughable that the first people who knew Xiyue's case were actually our son's classmates at day care.
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Though with a district so horribly gerrymandered, the idea that the location of your residence means anything seems laughable.
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The new camera will cost $79,500, which puts this so far above the consumer price bracket that it's almost laughable.
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Second, the notion that the Clinton campaign paying Steele is the same as Trump (allegedly) colluding with Russia is laughable.
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" Kentucky Republican Party spokesman Tres Watson, however, called the choice of Beshear to give the response to Trump's address "laughable.
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Remember how laughable it sounded to put "Michael Bisping" and "middleweight champion" anywhere near each other until fourth months ago?
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The idea that someone they've never met in a TV company would dare even suggest content for them is laughable.
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But to anyone who understood how Washington works, his "drain the swamp" proposals should have been laughable from the start.
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At one point, Milo shows off a $7,500 dinner bill, which is laughable, given what we know about his debt.
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The dialogue is downright laughable at times and Paul W.S. Anderson's direction doesn't do much to elicit any highlight performances.
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It's a laughable prospect, despite reports, swiftly denied, that surfaced last month that Donald Trump had promised him a seat.
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And it's that last bit that makes Kushner's attempts to dismiss what happened in 2016 all the more laughable/offensive.
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In 2018, a 5GB music player with no internet connectivity may seem laughable, but back in 20163, it was nirvana.
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Their limited storage capacity is laughable by today's standards, but that's not to say floppy disks are completely useless yet.
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It's almost laughable in the age of infinite cloud storage, but it was very expensive to host your music online.
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"It's kind of laughable, but unfortunately it gets taken seriously by some," Tvert said of the Rocky Mountain HIDTA report.
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And even though the company is still raking in mountains of cash, notions that its image remains unscathed are laughable.
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Likewise, the idea of the famously focused Murray ever "enjoying every moment" of a such a demolition job seems laughable.
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He spent most of last season recovering from a knee injury; the notion of Wang Zhelin: NBA Player seemed laughable.
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Continuing with the laughable manliness, I moved on to Contract to Kill, a movie produced by and starring Steven Seagal.
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The major bones of contention, we're told -- the cast feels their wardrobe and travel stipends are so low it's laughable.
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If ExxonMobil made the same laughable argument in court, the judge might actually laugh before a courtroom filled with reporters.
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And it's laughable to watch George Stephanopoulos congratulate his co-host for how she "pressed" Lil Tay with her questions.
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This isn't about the laughable idea of Bisping, a goddamn professional fighter, being too afraid to fight other professional fighters.
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Sure, this seems like a nice, cozy, laughable coincidence, but mind you, there may be some underlying hostilities after WWII.
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"It's laughable," one longtime ally to the former vice president said of Bloomberg, whose candidacy would have nearly limitless pockets.
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Yet her many columns in recent years rebuking or calling into question the judgment of President Obama are laughable. Why?
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I'm going to stick to nonfiction, as the notion of me writing a good novel is too laughable to contemplate.
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As for the idea that a private individual could run a space programme, that would have been laughable back then.
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It's laughable that Melania is sort of the anti-cyberbullying, which is bizarre because her husband's always tweeting bullying statements.
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"Senator Portman's campaign is welcome to waste their time on this laughable stunt," said Strickland's campaign manager David Bergstein Friday.
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He rejected accusations that this could spell the end to "Mother's Day" or "Father's Day", saying such suggestions were "laughable".
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It effectively replaced a laughable five-year, $7 million deal from 2012 that included three years of budget-friendly options.
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"When U.S. LPs (companies) go public in the next few years it will make these Canadian companies laughable," he said.
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The idea of him doing the same in the kickboxing ring without the threat of the takedown was pretty laughable.
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It's laughable: One of the world's most powerful technology companies is perturbed because we're all using our phones too much.
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It's founded on one laughable assumption: that women are weak and fragile beings in need of safeguarding by strong menfolk.
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"I don't think it's laughable," said Reed Benson, chairman of the environmental law program at the University of New Mexico.
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However, his insistence on the "correct" way to fight what we now know to be impending world disaster is laughable.
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He made his bones in the more trollish quarters of the internet, where civility is a laughable and dead tradition.
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So, instead, I will just start by throwing out some permissible insults: artificial, clichéd, mawkish, preposterous, incompetent, sexist, laughable, insulting.
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However, past threats of actually using the rule have been treated as laughable by members of Congress and agencies alike.
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" Nick Merrill, Hillary Clinton's spokesman, said any effort to connect the 85033 grant with the current Russia investigation was "laughable.
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I think it is laughable that this impeachment trial may end without hearing Bolton's first-hand account of what happened.
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Old structures like business hours and the workweek seem laughable in light of the always-on cycle of social media.
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Now it seems laughable that this was the biggest gaffe of the election, the most shocking thing a politician said.
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On Wednesday, McConnell had dismissed criticism as "laughable to think this is anywhere close to an impeachable offense," Politico reported.
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Attempts by Trump allies to downplay the oddness of the President's requests to McCabe and Comey are close to laughable.
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"It's absolutely laughable, and we're going to prove that Mr. Cohen is not telling the truth about this," Avenatti said.
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Laughable. Cavill and Gadot have identical deals — Gadot might even be making out a little better So what's the truth?
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On Thursday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders called it "disgraceful and laughable" to question Trump's mental fitness to serve.
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The once-laughable GOP aspiration to get this whole process wrapped up before the end of 2017 suddenly looks plausible.
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"The breadth of that claim of executive privilege is breathtaking and insupportable and indeed, at times, it was laughable," Rep.
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But the very idea that Sarah Jeong's tweets reveal her desire to set up concentration camps for whites is laughable.
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" Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, rejected the notion that Mr. Trump was refusing to compromise as "laughable.
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It would be laughable to call this film meticulous, but its determination to undermine its own narrative context is impressively thorough.
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Despite the fact that hotep perspectives are often laughable, their politics are very harmful to Black women and LGBTQ identified people.
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The Trump administration will make plenty of laughable mistakes (which no politician can avoid, least of all a swaggering political novice).
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Their social engineering tactics, to be clear, were laughable but they could have been catastrophic if my friends were less savvy.
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One of his classmates also pointed out on Twitter that the idea of Hogg being a professional actor was, well, laughable.
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In the hands of another director, Deep Red, with its sometimes needlessly overcomplicated plot, could come off as laughable at times.
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Compared to Western television channels, RT's budget is laughable: $323 million versus the BBC's $6.6 billion in revenue for 2015–2016.
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His bluntness is laughable until you remember that there are many men in the entertainment industry who share those sentiments unironically.
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The show gave her reasons for the sudden bout of "madness," but their believability as a relatable human reaction was laughable.
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"Around January 2015, when I finished the first draft of [my ISIS] book, it was laughable," McCants says of the franchises.
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After floating into laughable obscurity, the synth-heavy anthem was reborn when a magician named Gob made it his theme song.
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Just as laughable is the notion that nominating a cadre of well-paid American Journalism Fellows could be a nonpartisan affair.
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"When The Young Pope is bad, it's epically so — laughable, with histrionics and mustache-twirling and bombastic set pieces," he wrote.
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Media Research Center analyst Kristine Marsh wrote, "The New York Times justified her racist tweets," and called the paper's statement laughable.
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The US intelligence community has concluded that Russia was behind the DNC hack, and any suggestion to the contrary is laughable.
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Joe Kasper, a spokesman for Hunter, said it's "laughable" to consider it theft when the painting was brought to Clay's office.
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The source said he thinks the White House spin is laughable, adding that folks in the administration are upset and anxious.
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"It sounded laughable two or three years ago, but now it could be a reality ... things change almost overnight," he said.
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The idea that the same group might one day play on the biggest stage – let alone become stars – seemed almost laughable.
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The idea of presuming I knew better than my parents while making such a huge life decision seemed laughable at times.
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It's almost laughable to believe Title II rules would be an effective North Star guiding the next chapter of internet advancements.
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My upper body strength is laughable and I'd love to get a bit stronger through using weights in my gym session.
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Acetaminophen and ibuprofen are just short of laughable: If they worked for severe pain, no legitimate patient would be taking opioids.
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All of it is laughable, but remember that the Hardys are and have always been earnest to a nearly painful degree.
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A call-up seemed laughable, and there seemed to be no indication that he was anywhere near being on Osorio's radar.
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The White House pushed back against those fears, saying it was "disgraceful and laughable" to suggest Trump is unfit for office.
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" In an interview with The Times, Lee fired back: "What's laughable is how the Knicks are the laughingstock of the league.
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This is also why it is laughable when judges and defenders of these rulings suggest that Congress could fix the problem.
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To suggest that Ms. Regan is in any way responsible for Simpson's sick and depraved comments is absurd, laughable and actionable.
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But at least one critic said the proposal betrayed a lack of understanding about domestic-abuse issues that was literally laughable.
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When the news started to spread about a plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, it seemed laughable.
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Over the past 12 months, the idea that you have control over your Facebook data or privacy has become almost laughable.
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Trump has the audacity to question the motives of a learned and respected prosecutor, which is laughable given his past antics.
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Beyond laughable because such stories pass like a Bay Area breeze in the city named for a pauper from medieval Assisi.
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The representation that a "Rabbi Voice" exists would have been laughable, if there were any humor in stereotypes that involve Jews.
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The stoned student even dives into a snap dance of his own, delivering one of the episode's few genuine laughable moments.
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When conservatives show up in contemporary plays, they are usually laughable blowhards, whining billionaires or troglodyte parents whose children scorn them.
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As they cruised down back roads far from any cellular towers, the notion of accessing Spotify through their iPhones became laughable.
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Lucca is forced to become a spokeswoman for black people everywhere after she's asked a series of laughable and demeaning questions.
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Through interviews with her parents, art critics and historians, Ms. Skyler offers a personal, and laughable, take on a global phenomenon.
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This notion that a few smart guys know how to quote unquote run a global economy is just laughable to him.
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We get along well," he said adding "The moon has been characterized as a threat, too, so I think it's laughable.
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Murkowski has downplayed the incident and Zinke has shrugged it off, saying it's "laughable" that he would threaten Alaska over healthcare.
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To imply that the phrase 'dicks out for Harambe' is sexual harassment and worthy of a Title IX investigation is laughable.
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Facebook was originally conceived as a way to "tell your life story online," which seems laughable at this point in time.
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Agathon Rwasa, the first deputy of Burundi's national assembly, says the ruling party's narrative of a stabilized, peaceful country is laughable.
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I mean, AT&T's got the AT&T bill of rights, which is a little bit laughable if you ask me.
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For a band that trades on degenerate cynicism, zozh may be laughable, but for the rest of Russia it is great news.
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" So now it's laughable that Pete Townshend could define his g-g-g-generation with "hope I die before I get old.
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Some even dubbed him "Baghdad Bob," a reference to Saddam Hussein's press spokesman who would lie so openly it was actually laughable.
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"This is laughable coming from the number one sponsor of terrorism, America," said a spokesman for the Badr Organisation, without providing evidence.
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ET, and billed the program as nonpartisan, a characterization dismissed as laughable by cable news viewers familiar with Cuomo's anti-Trump histrionics.
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But attacking a small, local business in a city where you are a guest is laughable and low, even for NRA supporters.
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If he'd stopped there, it might have remained a remote, laughable memory, a childhood squabble buried alongside dozens of other such moments.
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The idea that our trade negotiators got snookered is laughable: we got almost everything we wanted in late-twentieth-century trade negotiations.
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Some reporters describe Paris syndrome as too privileged a condition to sympathize with, merely a laughable first-class problem afflicting fragile travelers.
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First, the idea that AT&T is in favor of net neutrality — the net neutrality we all had and enjoyed — is laughable.
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"Despite their monster moves, the banks stocks are so far behind the rest of the market it is almost laughable," Cramer said.
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If you thought that the idea of a Starbucks being on every corner in the world was a laughable exaggeration, guess again.
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" Judd told Axios he finds this quote "laughable" and that it appears Axios' source "has an axe to grind and nothing more.
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If implemented poorly, these proactive efforts could quickly become even more annoying than the sometimes laughable reactive responses to our voice requests.
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Despite 13 Stanley Cup championships, trailing only the Canadiens with 24, the Maple Leafs have been mostly a laughable band of losers.
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"The idea that somehow they've all got it wrong and Katie McGinty, my opponent, has it right is just laughable," he said.
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It's a common error, sure, but the sheer fact that yet another typo is associated with Donald Trump makes it very laughable.
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Sorry—sometimes, the show's attempt at social satire is so laughable that it ends up being the funniest part of the show.
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The system they've carved out of Congress's efforts to constrain public corruption rests upon a series of assumptions that have proven laughable.
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The imaginings by my tormentors of me as an Orthodox Jew in wide-brimmed hat and Hasidic garb were, of course, laughable.
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Conway slammed television news networks for hosting "laughable" six-person panels decrying Trump's decision, adding that journalists were part of the problem.
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During a Wednesday meeting in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, Maduro said the allegations would be laughable if they weren't so serious.
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When Nixon tried to argue that executive privilege extends to the entire executive branch, legal scholars declared this position absurd, even laughable.
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No matter what you're packing, there are points throughout history when your dick has been laughable and grotesque, or admirable and desirable.
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I think we sort of let him play out that first scene with me really sort of in this laughable, lovable way.
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That is simply untrue, the notion that government provides a more user-friendly and secure method than the private sector is laughable.
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This absurd conspiracy theory would be laughable if it had not come from someone who is now the world's most powerful man.
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Considering everything else in fashion — predicting and changing trends, getting products out to consumers — happens as fast as possible, it's downright laughable.
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The punky / reggae / soulboy circles I knew regarded footballers as being champions of the laughable mullet and curly-perm hairstyles, and conservative.
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But Suicide Squad tries so hard to be seedy or lecherous or scuzzy that it somehow warps back around and becomes laughable.
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As far as fonts go, Papyrus isn't quite as laughable as the beloved joke that is Comic Sans, but it's pretty close.
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Right-wing fears about people kicking in the doors of wealthy white gun owners to take away their arms might seem laughable.
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Until now all the energy has been with them, and it is laughable to think that passing tax cuts will satiate them.
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Here, "riot" is referring to a laughable matter (HA HA HA) rather than the more straight-forward "rioting in the streets" meaning.
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He also predicted that the tax effort would be easier than health care, a notion that many longtime congressional aides consider laughable.
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Sony's camera software has been notoriously awful for years, and unfortunately, the touchscreen controls on the RX100 Mark VII are still laughable.
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The $170 million fine the FTC and New York state recently hit Google's YouTube with is almost laughable considering Google's overall worth.
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A consensus among most in the scientific community is that EMP attacks are nothing to worry about and even a laughable subject.
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It was laughable, Don Jr. said, to suggest that their father was using the presidency as a way to enhance family profits.
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They're textbook examples of dysfunction that would be laughable if the stakes weren't so high, both for them and for the nation.
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"He is so disingenuous that when he starts talking about unity it is almost laughable," said Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts.
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But after consecutive seasons with the worst and third-worst records in the N.B.A., the Nets are, at least, no longer laughable.
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One employee dismissed Musk's prediction that production had doubled as "laughable", but another said he and his colleagues were generally optimistic. 5.
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And it would've been laughable to imagine those three gone as the network scores record ratings, all while under one President Donald Trump.
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" He continued: "These would have been laughable to me when I was 25, but as I get older, they are much more meaningful.
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I hope he doesn't take offense while I pick apart his defense of what is, in retrospect, an inferior and sometimes laughable film.
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The idea that Hermione spends the play being ignored and having to remind the men around her that she's in charge is laughable.
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"These would have been laughable to me when I was 25, but as I get older, they are much more meaningful," writes Gates.
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The absurdity of just now teaching a 59-year-old Virginian about anti-blackness in America is laughable to the point of pain.
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" Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin: Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for Treasury tweeted "It is laughable to think this could come from the Secretary.
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The congressional coalition he imagines, in which Democrats cross the aisle to join Trump under the red flag of socialism, is now laughable.
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While it's done through the lens of pre-teens, Big Mouth does a good job of explicitly making those anxieties laughable but relatable.
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Special effects that were supposed to be impressive become cheesy and intimidating effects that were supposed to add to the plot become laughable.
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However, the idea of all the rule-breakers getting caught is laughable, given the sheer amount of content being generated by the site.
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This is laughable nonsense, and as his support system crumbles and changes and crumbles again, he remains the most reliable body in sports.
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The United States' deferral to the IPCC is "laughable," said Ted Parson, an environmental law professor at the University of California Los Angeles.
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When President Trump started making rural broadband a talking point and signed some meaningless executive orders earlier this month, the hypocrisy was laughable.
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For Kudlow to have alleged that these views and work are "a side of Peter that I don't know" is more than laughable.
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That, in addition to the laughable audio track and the outpouring of comments claiming the video is fake is enough to convince us.
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And while it may seem odd or even laughable to see Oprah towering over the other characters as a giant version of Mrs.
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By now, that's a laughable claim, following Trump's pronouncements on transgender Americans in the military, and his outspoken support for virulently homophobic politicians.
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While the evidence of obstruction was always stronger than collusion, it would be a laughable case to bring in a court of law.
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But when states' abilities to enforce their laws remain handcuffed, the collection rate of these already-owed taxes is a laughable 85033 percent.
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Similarly, whatever you think of the validity of Hill's suspension, the idea that sports are being politicized solely by the left is laughable.
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The assertion would be laughable, if not for the disturbing implication that the EPA can only function when it uses sub-par data.
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Critics rating: 26%Director, writer, producer, and star Tommy Wiseau created a movie with laughable interactions, unintentionally humorous quotes, and an incomprehensible plot.
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For many, the notion that a Trump administration could possibly consider women's agency a vital element of his national security agenda is laughable.
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For Henry, the fact that interim title will be contested despite the champion of the division fighting on the same card is "laughable".
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The fact he thought Cyrus (Jeff Perry) would possibly be OK sharing the prestige and power is laughable, and really concerning for Alex.
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By the fifth series of the show, two years after Leona's victory, considering The X Factor a second-rate talent show felt laughable.
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Twenty years ago, it would have been laughable to suggest a NBA team run pick-and-rolls with its center and power forward.
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" Responding to Trump in a series of tweets Friday, Trumka said "the notion that anybody could play [Pelosi] like a fiddle is laughable.
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As a theory, the notion that any of these guys would deter Iran from doing what it did this week seems pretty laughable.
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On a larger scale, the idea that there is widespread collusion among liberal university elites to deny white students educational opportunities is laughable.
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As best as can be determined today, the numbers behind the proposal are so off base as to make the whole enterprise laughable.
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Speaking of unreliable memories, it's laughable for Republicans to complain, as some do, that Dr. Blasey's claim is too old to be considered.
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It's a mixture of heavy alternative rock and rap, the lyrics are cheesy, and the guitar distortion was pushed to a laughable level.
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"The idea that the President gets to assert executive privilege over material that has already been made public is laughable," Wittes told me.
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Khabib Nurmagomedov says Conor McGregor's victory over Cowboy Cerrone was LAUGHABLE -- claiming Conor shouldn't be praised for beating a washed-up old man.
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The transplant liaison is compassionate to an almost laughable degree, halting Simon's organ removal to place the sound of surf in his ears.
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" Asked if he had threatened the Alaskans, Zinke replied: "The moon has been characterized as a threat, too, so I think it's laughable.
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This juvenile folklore passing as historical fact would be almost laughable if not for how widespread the acceptance of this myth has become.
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But his proposed new EPA rules -- tagged with the laughable misnomer the "Affordable Clean Energy" rule -- are not just vindictive, they are dangerous.
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It's laughable now, as Mr. Kobach spouts his latest, wildly irresponsible accusations based on an inaccurate reading of the data and the law.
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That a member of Section 31, in the way it has been described before, would be worried about a court-martial is laughable.
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Just this week he claimed President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton founded ISIS together, a pretty laughable piece of complete and utter fiction.
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" Page said in response that he had not watched the interviews, but he called Nunberg's claim that he colluded with the Russians "laughable.
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He wouldn't have threatened a laughable, sure-to-lose lawsuit that his target would love to fight for both marketing and discovery purposes.
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But sources connected to Brad say that's laughable, because they were both extremely rich and such a promise wasn't necessary and never made.
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Trump and his supporters have dismissed Hollywood as the "elite" and out of touch with "real" Americans, which is laughable because Trump personifies elitism.
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Laughable content may be exactly what makes a good ad because Snapchat itself is a platform for sharing fun and authentic photos and videos.
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The idea that Germany would attack France or that Austria would go to war against Italy were it not for the EU is laughable.
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While boxing purists have denounced the fight as nothing more than a laughable cashgrab it has nonetheless captured the fascination of many fight fans.
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There are numerous quotes that are so deeply backward as to be laughable if they weren't tragic demonstrations of the book's decidedly colonialist bent.
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In a way, it's laughable that so much additional hardware would be needed to replace a thin wire that's just a few feet long.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called questions about President Trump's mental fitness to serve "disgraceful and laughable" during Thursday's daily press briefing.
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It underscores how little respect Capcom's shown the blue bomber recently, and proves laughable so soon after Nintendo's slick and polished Super Mario Run.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday called reports that the White House is trying to force him out "laughable," per the Associated Press.
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But the idea that we should debate how "feminist" Wonder Woman may or may not be is, despite its female director and star, laughable.
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Putin's stab at a NATO-like extended deterrence is both laughable and pitiable, as Russia has no real friends over which to extend it.
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All of which makes Trump's response to the news on Friday laughable -- if this wasn't such serious stuff: "Totally clears the President," wrote Trump.
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"The idea that somehow there is going to be a China deal and that will make everything better, I think, is laughable," Stockman said.
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Democrats attacked House Republicans for sowing doubt in the justice system over a memo they considered "juvenile" and a "laughable hack job," as Rep.
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On my belt I carried a pair of binoculars and big knife, which would prove laughable in any bear confrontation, but felt comforting nonetheless.
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He began with that kooky, laughable lie about the unprecedented size of President Trump's inauguration crowd, and things didn't pick up much from there.
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In doing so, the justices rejected the laughable falsehoods that Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, had told to justify the addition of the question.
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In these circumstances, even the laughable attempts by state functionaries to share mythologies, extremely suspect ones at that, take on a very dangerous aspect.
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" He said this explained why "movies dealing with that story are seen as Academy Awards contenders, while ones dealing with biblical stories are laughable.
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The other major contribution to women's sneakers that season was almost laughable: a Nike and Swarovski line of ultra-feminine shoes coated in crystals.
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Karreuche's manager Jacob York calls Geragos' claims laughable ... telling us it's insane to think Karreuche would take legal measures against Chris just for press.
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"Whether the president's men think the thought laughable or not, the vice-president is the only real asset of the Bush campaign," Pence wrote.
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In the old top-down model of fame that incubated him, that would have been a laughable proposition, or at minimum, an unbankable one.
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" But overwhelmingly Democrats found it unpersuasive and at times laughable, particularly Cipollone's contention that they would prove that the president had "done nothing wrong.
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The s**canning of Kelly occurred 15 months ago, and it was about as limp and laughable as any seen on the network level.
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The absurdity of this story would be laughable if it hadn't led a man to bring a rifle to a restaurant filled with families.
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"No, this laughable conspiracy theory is totally false and beyond belief — even by Washington's standards," Pence press secretary Alyssa Farah said in a statement.
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In hindsight, to reprise this theory in 2016 was laughable, especially given some, let's call them, changes in computing in the past four decades.
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" Conway noted that Trump has said the notion that Russia intervened in the election to help him win the presidency is "laughable and ridiculous.
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After a 49-state victory just months earlier, the notion was so laughable that I was the only journalist to actually acknowledge the bill.
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If the Democrats can stage such a fraudulent and laughable impeachment process, there's no knowing what lows they'll sink to in the coming year.
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To say that black folk who don't normally care about comics adapted to film are "looking forward to" Black Panther is a laughable understatement.
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People are constantly telling her this, and the examples of her work that the show provides are so laughable to call them mediocre is generous.
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Meanwhile John Longworth, Chairman of Vote Leave's Business Council, described Tusk's claims as "absolutely laughable", adding "greatest risk is actually staying in the European Union".
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Watching all of the King films — from the award-winning highs to the laughable lows — offers a compelling reflection of one of our greatest storytellers.
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"I am a very private person and would normally never answer to gossip and stories that are so ridiculous that they are laughable," he wrote.
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Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo)One day, the idea of making marks on sheets of flattened tree guts to share ideas with others will be laughable.
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A system of satellites and lasers that controls the weather, as depicted in the new climate change-inspired disaster film Geostorm: Yeah, sounds pretty laughable.
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She also says it's laughable that Stephen has bonded with Angel ... she says he confuses Angel for his other daughter, Madison, in his legal docs.
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But it's time to stop calling it "Women's Equality Day" because the idea of all things being equal for women in this country is laughable.
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Elissa always dreamed of sailing west to discover the strange and unknown lands never known to man before — which, again, was considered a laughable goal.
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The degree of special pleading we've witnessed since Trump secured the GOP nomination would be laughable if a country, and international stability, weren't at stake.
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This is a likable car, arguably the best small Hyundai the South Korean automaker has presented to America since its laughable Excel sedan in 226.
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"That said, if Nicholson or any of his team actually spent time in Wisconsin, they'd know that Leah taking orders is downright laughable," Ward said.
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Harris' suggestion that government is more responsive, efficient and less prone to mountains of perplexing paperwork than the private sector is laughable on its face.
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The Green New Deal's framework is laughable for its lack of specifics and its focus on issues that have nothing to do with climate change.
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When I heard Toyota's Prius Prime Advanced had only 24 miles of electric range on offer, the idea of the plug-in Prius sounded laughable.
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" A Democratic aide responded to the ad saying that "it's laughable to think that Senate Republicans are going to be able to litigate this issue.
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He wanted to bless the space, he said, suggesting that for all the laughable, youthful debauchery that took place there, it is still hallowed ground.
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When I started traveling the world talking to startups – way back in 2009 – the idea of a small company entering the global stage was laughable.
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It may seem laughable to ascribe gender to a self-service checkout, but as humanoid robots become more developed, it's hard to avoid sexed robots.
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That the wedding will take place at midnight — after the cocktails, dinner and dancing — is a laughable device justified lamely and late in the play.
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Fishing as a cardio workout might sound laughable, but research published in 63 found that professional anglers burn up to 4,300 calories during tournament days.
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He's voted for border fencing and as Mitt Romney's vice presidential nominee stood for the party's "self-deportation" proposal, which Democrats found to be laughable.
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The fact that it's even considering reinstatement, or the laughable partial reinstatement options, shows it still isn't serious about punishing nations that cheat to win.
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While such schemes might be dismissed as laughable, the public loses millions of dollars each year through such frauds, the police said in the statement.
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The best way to respond to that movement — which it's laughable that it might even be a movement — is to not give it any attention.
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Timothy Egan It's beyond laughable that a one-bedroom apartment can sell for $1.5 million in San Francisco — and get multiple offers within a day.
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The notion that the founder of sham entities like Trump University or the Trump Foundation has suddenly transmogrified into an anti-corruption crusader is laughable.
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But you won't see a dojo, which is only one of the reasons the roundhouse-kicking "Walker, Texas Ranger," starring Chuck Norris, was so laughable.
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At first, it was laughable: Guys with heavy accents, claiming to be 'Steve Martin' (seriously?), using language that was very British-influenced and awkward-sounding.
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Unfolding with a minimum of dialogue, Francisca's maturation from watcher to doer would be laughable if performed with less nuance or photographed with less originality.
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Zeke Elliott has been an awesome story, but he also runs behind the NFL's dominant blocking unit and often has a laughable amount of room.
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First it's a trap because now almost any level of voter fraud that's discovered will elevate President Trump's claims from laughable to at least partially correct.
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My opinion is dismissed as irrelevant, laughable: After living in America for nearly two decades, I'm too comfortable, in Russians' eyes, to speak about their pain.
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For nationalists like Kenny, the notion that there are people who voted for independence in 2014, but are now opposed to a second referendum, is laughable.
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Calvin Harris thinks it's "f****** laughable" that Taylor Swift has already met Tom Hiddleston's mother ... considering she NEVER met Calvin's parents during their 15-month relationship.
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"It's easy to laugh at this, and it is laughable, but it also highlights how bad the FBI is when it comes to FOIA," she said.
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Sarcasm became a way to nudge audiences into seeing how laughable the world around them was, where sincerity and naivete were implausible if not outright obsolete.
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But the idea of applying feminism to my everyday life seemed laughable: a historical affectation, like using the word "prithee" or wearing a corset to work.
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When the declared intention of the aggressors is to kill that nation's citizens, it is laughable to even suggest that a forceful response would not ensue.
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"So they should freeze their production at 10 million barrels and we should freeze ours at 1 million barrels - this is a laughable proposal," he said.
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The government is not going to be able to ban guns, and limits on the size of bullet magazines will be even more laughable than before.
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On another note, most of us who consider ourselves Christian find it laughable Duke refers to his doctrine of hate and separatism as Christian family values.
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Of course, fast forward to today, and the idea that Japanese economic might somehow endangers Americans is almost laughable after two decades of deflation in Japan.
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For every laughable toy–cum–homicidal maniac (see: The Boy), there is probably at least one plastic predator whose face has kept you up at night.
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The chances of Greenblatt or one of his colleagues at the top passing on a reboot in the interest of artistic integrity are, quite frankly, laughable.
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Weitzman says it's laughable that the person on the deed changing the title is Michael Jackson ... who is utterly incapable of giving anything to anyone anymore.
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The thing that makes so much stock photography so laughable is how transparent its setups look, while yours are more reminiscent of family photo albums pictures.
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And in what was the most laughable part of the episode, Cersei and Maester Qyburn unveil their secret weapon for defeating Dany's dragons: A … big crossbow?
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In particular, harmful depictions of "predatory gays" and presentations of lesbian relationships intended to pander to the male gaze permeate scary content to a laughable extent.
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Jim carrying the business card of his Swiss banker in his wallet at the time he was about to fly overseas to Switzerland was almost laughable.
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Speedie's British accent was laughable, JT's biography was so lurid as to verge on the preposterous, and his writing combined pornographic content with greeting-card sentimentality.
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While it's true that yesterday's leaps forward, like sending the newspaper by dirigible to London, look quaint or laughable today, experimentation is in The Times's DNA.
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But in the context of Mr. Trump's personal tax returns, legal experts said, the argument that he has a fiduciary duty to others is, well, laughable.
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The idea that he or any other reporter can consider themselves an objective reporter when obviously they're under orders to promote the company line, it's laughable.
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AND IT IF YOU LOOK AT THE MODEL THAT YOU HAVE, AT THE EPA, IT'S REALLY INSANE BECAUSE TO GO AND SAY THAT -- IT'S ALMOST LAUGHABLE.
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But it is worth remembering that there's a lot more logic, complexity, and complication to these seemingly laughable tales of ego than first meets the eye.
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In the real world, the idea of not having a wallet to store your credit card, cash, and ID is so wacky as to be laughable.
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But in far too many others, our we have constructed a perfect-storm-in-waiting of tightly coupled networks, zero oversight, and laughable attempts at security.
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There is no exchange to be had when only one person is getting the profits and recognition which makes the idea of a "cultural exchange" laughable.
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His account is still there, but it is covered with takedown notices triggered by Tumblr's new NSFW content bans and laughable ability to implement them evenly.
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So to suggest that we are looking at a different era in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, if it wasn't so serious, it would be laughable.
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The Iranian Foreign Ministry denied the drone had strayed into Israeli airspace and rejected as "laughable" reports that Israel had intercepted a drone launched from Syria.
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The idea that the president is self-made is almost as laughable as the notion that he writes (or, for that matter, reads) his own books.
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This rationale was so transparently absurd that the Supreme Court ruled against allowing the question until the administration could come up with a less laughable excuse.
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Many Wagner devotees actually enjoy a good "Ring" satire, perhaps because we admit that, however compelling, its giants, river maidens and dwarfs are a little laughable.
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Primo had ordered his men to kill Paul after having received Getty Sr.'s laughable counteroffer to his $17 million ransom demand — just $600, plus expenses.
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" In light of these complaints, Engel said he found it "really laughable that the secretary of State suddenly has this great concern for the State Department.
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But standards have slipped so far in British politics that these days there appears to be stiff competition for the most laughable statement of the day.
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Vision Fund still views the prospect of illiquidity as laughable, particularly given how it remains comfortably in the black on companies like Slack and Guardant Health.
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The fact that liberals even suggest that those who have no legal claim to residence here even have "rights" is a laughable premise to begin with.
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When officials try to peddle the idea that a silent majority in Hong Kong loves China, their efforts strike many people in the territory as laughable.
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The airline said that it would face down what it described as "laughable demands" by pilots for conditions traditionally offered by high-cost rivals, Reuters reported.
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On the second count, the very idea that continuing this agreement is "vital to the national security interests of the United States" is, quite frankly, laughable.
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"It's almost laughable," said Murugesan, who told her employer that she was vomiting so she could attend the meeting in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
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"Just Say No to Drugs" as a moral absolute is laughable to anyone who has spent any time around drugs or felt the impact of addiction.
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It's laughable that Chip Kelly banished him from Philly because he didn't fit whatever dumb notions Kelly carries around in his headset-microphone-licking mind. 2.
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To the guy that heads up Microsoft's Surface products, the idea that the company is going to kill off its line of computers and tablets is laughable.
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It's so far ahead of Windows 10 Continuum that it's almost laughable and makes me wonder what Microsoft has been doing for two years since Continuum debuted.
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The idea of her doing so was laughable, even though she was a Christian woman on the internet, because Rachel wasn't trying to draw attention to herself.
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Avenatti called those charges "laughable" at the time, denying the notion that Daniels was backed by Democratic Party interests and downplaying his political work as ancient history.
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" Schiff — who is a lawyer and former prosecutor — said "the breadth" of Bannon's executive privilege claim "is breathtaking and insupportable, and indeed at times it was laughable.
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Now, of course, the idea of being able to even cover the cost of textbooks from your 16 hours a week of American Apparel cashiering is laughable.
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As with all research in this arena, telling women to simply plan for children around this window of time is laughable in terms of real-life application.
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"I find it laughable that the police are seeking to shut down the country's thriving rumor mill," Koo writes in his fake news feature on Korea Expose.
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Farr finds the whole threat so laughable he's publicly offered pro bono audit defense for anyone who actually winds up in the IRS's crosshairs due to #ThotAudit.
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It's laughable that they would ever encounter such a work, but if they did, they would probably assume that the declaration represents all that's wrong with America.
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" No wonder she finds that the "obtuseness" of this position is "laughable," a product of James's "troublesome intellectual compromises," leading to a 19th-century version of "psychobabble.
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Kaepernick has been called a distraction, which is laughable— his coach last year, Chip Kelly, says there was "zero distraction," and his 49ers teammates said the same.
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It's laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like Cohen at his word, and pathetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread his lies.
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This is in no way a defense of her actions, but the idea that a "vulnerable" and naive innocent could have pulled off this feat is laughable.
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It warned its pilots this week that it would face down "laughable demands" for conditions similar to high-cost rivals even if that meant strikes at Easter.
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In either case, the idea that O'Reilly has any moral standing to sermonize on the media's threat to basic decency is not just ironic, it's downright laughable.
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Her compost cookies (pretzels and potato chips mixed with chocolate chips and other ingredients), cereal milk ice cream and cake truffles are laughable — in the best way.
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Even the most laughable predictions in this latest federal government report are regurgitated by the press as if irrefutable truths handed down from God on stone tablets.
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"The claim that this was a fake coup is no more credible than the laughable claim that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the United States."
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The claim that this was a fake coup is no more credible than the laughable claim that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the United States.
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The sheer number of high-profile criminal investigations currently underway would be laughable if it weren't such a depressing reflection on the current state of our country.
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It would be laughable if the campaign were simply laying down the grand excuse for the label that will follow the tyrant from Trump Tower after Nov.
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Some of its grand special effects — walls of water to show the Red Sea's parting or thunderbolts striking the Ten Commandments — may seem laughable by today's standards.
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Years ago, the thought of a Democrat — especially one endorsing an AR-2023 ban and "Medicare for all" — having a fighting chance in Texas would be laughable.
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The idea that they represent a potential threat to America is either laughable or alarming, suggesting that Trump harbors aspirations of completely severing America's traditional diplomatic relationships.
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Despite cannabis's lingering and laughable Schedule I classification by the federal government, an ever-increasing number of American states have chosen to disregard Washington and legalize pot.
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The laws we have in place to prevent the procurement of military-style weapons by mentally ill citizens are laughable by the standards of any civilized society.
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She answered yes to just one question, about whether she ever felt irritable at work, and got the laughable result that she was at risk of burnout.
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A spokesman for the president, Salvador Panelo, played down the president's remark, calling it a "laughable anecdote to dramatize" the real problem of sexual abuse by priests.
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The very idea that Clinton could both crack down on the big banks and take their money at the same time strikes him as straight-up laughable.
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"It's laughable that 'white men' are the faces of gay culture, when there's clearly a whole entire narrative that exists along with the queer experience," said Aman.
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To distract you from their failures and delegitimize Mr. Trump, top Democrats peddled a laughable conspiracy theory about Russia colluding with Mr. Trump to beat Hillary Clinton.
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But to anyone who lived through the Merrick Garland and Brett Kavanaugh nominations, the idea that this norm would be resilient absent Trump's Twitter provocations seems laughable.
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It sounds laughable, but divisions are so deep that the never-ending Brexit debate is now being cast as a primeval struggle for the soul of England.
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"The message was, we're trying to meet customer needs better by cutting staff by 10 percent, which is laughable," said Charles Peabody, an analyst at Portales Partners.
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Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin: "It is laughable to think this could come from the Secretary," said Tony Sayegh, a spokesman for Treasury, in a tweet.
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Last year, in what arguably became the most laughable comment in the history of the sport, surf legend Laird Hamilton wrongly blamed menstruating women for shark attacks.
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President Trump's weekend attack on the press was not only "venomous," but laughable according to legendary journalist Carl Bernstein ... who thinks POTUS needs to show some gratitude.
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That time is not now, less than a week after THQ Nordic stepped in it to a degree that'd be laughable if it wasn't so obviously harmful.
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It wanted to tell a story with some stakes both for you and your character, and instead it's a game of looping gifs and laughable one-liners.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Iranian anti-government protesters on Monday, while denying as "laughable" Tehran's apparent accusations that Israel was behind the demonstrations.
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As for reports he was intimidated by Taylor's success -- a source close to Calvin calls that "laughable," since he's one of the most successful DJs in the game.
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In the end, it was Anderson who would leave Las Vegas with the intended result—though his being awarded a 30-27 by two judges is downright laughable.
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But it's laughable to characterize these posts as "hard questions" when so many of them are rolled out to absolve the company of poor behavior already making headlines.
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Their posts might be laughable at times, but shirt-free Instagays are like any other influencers online: more powerful than you'd think, and just as open to criticism.
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The fiasco, described as an "almost laughable laboratory blunder," got its own chapter in the book When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales from the Dark Side of Discovery.
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Given the bulkiness of today's VR headsets, the entire scene is a little laughable and not necessarily the most comfortable, especially considering the grossness of a sweaty headset.
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She's truly one of the worst coworkers I've ever had, but her lack of awareness is so laughable that I can never get mad enough to hate her.
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North Korea said on Sunday a push for further sanctions following its fifth and biggest nuclear test was "laughable", and vowed to continue to strengthen its nuclear power.
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Jughead proves to adjust to his new school quite well which makes Veronica, Betty, and Archie's attempt to save him by barging into his new cafeteria quite laughable.
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Iran's oil minister was quoted on Tuesday as saying the proposal was "laughable" because it did not allow that country to regain market share it lost during sanctions.
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His melodramatic, almost adolescent conniptions would be laughable were it not for what follows: the execution of five kneeling men in orange jumpsuits, accused of being British spies.
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"Providing a small refiner waiver to a company like Andeavor is laughable and abandons the commitment of President Trump to protect the RFS," he said in a statement.
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But a visitor from the 24th century would likely find some of our most cherished beliefs to be as laughable as Newton's embrace of alchemy is to us.
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Here is how Vox's Zack Beauchamp broke it down: The notion that the Clinton campaign paying Steele is the same as Trump (allegedly) colluding with Russia is laughable.
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The claim that there could not have been serious wrongdoing because military aid to Ukraine was ultimately released and Ukraine did not begin the requested investigations is laughable.
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"It is foolish to bring back laughable, outdated technology to suit your political agenda," Schwarzenegger, a leading advocate for action to prevent climate change says in the video.
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Nathan for You is a riotously funny show, but these little scenes are a glimpse into a deeper message that runs throughout—one that is decidedly less laughable.
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It's so blatantly unethical, and so straight out of the corrupt authoritarian's playbook, it would be laughable -- were it not further dismantling American democratic norms by the day.
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That's the plan, anyway, and what's so grim is not just the laughable certainty that it will go wrong but the sourness of the political cynicism behind it.
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James on Tuesday also criticized Trump for not inviting the WNBA champions for a visit, telling journalists that it was "laughable" for the Minnesota Lynx to be excluded.
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The idea that he will now engage in a "course correction" — that he will flip a switch and transform himself into a decent and dignified man — is laughable.
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Their strategy of describing Trump as a lawless threat to the republic while refusing to begin impeachment proceedings against him has gone from simply untenable to openly laughable.
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Housing insecurity, income insecurity, and austerity policies all may make the idea of investing seem laughable to most American households when they're living through a national financial crisis.
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The Commission is still ruled by a Republican majority and the idea of Carr being swayed to vote against the so-called "Restoring Internet Freedom" rulemaking is laughable.
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"The idea that Burma will now welcome them back to their smoldering villages with open arms is laughable," said Bill Frelick, refugee rights director at Human Rights Watch.
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I also feel my life experience, maybe with my maturity — which my wife would say is laughable — I think I can help some of the young people out.
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Lest we forget, we are all guinea pigs in an enormous experiment that would be laughable if it did not involve a substantial portion of our net worth.
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For the most part, these characters are largely laughable — sad, angry men hiding behind images of cartoon frogs, deathly afraid that their employers will uncover their online antics.
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All of this is laughable, but it would be a big mistake to assume that the collapse of the commission means the end of the voter-fraud inquisition.
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Nothing in Trump's behavior -- either in regard to the impeachment effort or more generally -- offered even a shred of evidence to make that claim seem anything but laughable.
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No laughable, disproven arguments that impeachment must be based on a statutory crime (though that likely will come when Dershowitz takes the podium) have been introduced so far.
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But such denials are laughable: Perusing photos from the #Trashtag Challenge, you can see all-too-familiar plastic packaging, plastic pellets, plastic toys and empty plastic water bottles.
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Additionally, the proposal ends the visa lottery system — a laughable way of choosing immigrants that serves no identifiable goal — and redirects those visas for skill-based visa categories.
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You would think that a 15-year-old horror movie that makes a VCR complicit in a series of murders would come across today as a laughable concept.
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Cornell Belcher, a progressive pollster whose firm worked on President Barack Obama's campaign and who is black, described the efforts by Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner as laughable.
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On matters small (windmills cause cancer), on matters laughable (there's never been an administration more open and transparent) and on serious matters of state (accusing Democrats of treason).
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When he writes her fake, self-serving letters, supposedly from her fiancé, it's laughable because his jealousy and attempts to disrupt their relationship are so transparent and childish.
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Hans Namuth, "Niki de Saint Phalle" (1962) / © Hans Namuth Estate / Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, Arizona The effects of their naïveté ranged from laughable to life-threatening.
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This was only slightly more laughable than the original New York Police Department report that the false alarm had been caused by the thud of a fallen barrier.
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" DOJ didn't even try to argue that it would be irreparably harmed if Furman entered a final judgment, the judge said, because such an argument would be "laughable.
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Though Kimball's rhetoric is laughable, the question of whom a museum elects as its heroes — whose work it champions and how it narrates history — is, of course, crucial.
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For readers of the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series on which the TV show is based, disappointment stemming from that estimated wait time is laughable.
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Lochte's team thinks it's laughable the family's blaming him, when Justin was busted for a felony -- not to mention the 2 guys getting arrested this week at 'Dancing.'
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This lack of insight into the real lives of poor people leads those in charge to come up with ideas that are ridiculously impractical, unrealistic and even laughable.
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In fact, H&M offers a treasure trove of makeup and skin-care staples, plus gifts that would impress any beauty-loving friend or coworker — all at laughable prices.
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By taking this line, detractors get to pretend AOC et al are demanding evidently laughable concepts like a train from California to Hawaii, as Donald Trump announced at CPAC.
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But the series, which was created by Hill Street Blues writer/producer Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by future four-time Oscar nominee Michael Mann, is anything but laughable.
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The solution is so simple it's almost laughable: just make our clouds a little more reflective, so they reflect more of the sun's light, and thus reduce our heat.
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"It's laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like Cohen at his word, and pathetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread his lies," Sanders said.
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It wasn't her voyeuristic handling of the hair attached to my body that seared this experience into my memory — that kind of cluelessness is more laughable than anything else.
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Before she was all over TV representing Donald Trump and presenting laughable "alternative facts," Kellyanne Conway was Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, a Washington, D.C., pollster and apparently aspiring stand-up comedian.
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" On Sunday, PewDiePie also posted to his blog that he is "in no way supporting any kind of hateful attitudes" and called the suggestion that he supported them "laughable.
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When he sat her down to ask her to stay with him while all the singletons were chauffeured out of Mexico, what she had to say was actually laughable.
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The idea struck many as laughable in a city where water guns are not mere pistols, but large pump machine guns often with water storage tanks worn as backpacks.
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It doesn't matter how much the president and his stooges try to distract the country from the issue with baseless and—frankly, laughable—claims of Obama wiretapping Trump Tower.
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Roseanne Barr thinks it's laughable that President Trump kinda tried taking credit for her massive ratings for the premiere of her revived TV show last week ... literally, she LOL'd.
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She says that once this happens, they can run off together, and it's almost laughable how gullible Ferdinand is to her plan — if it weren't also kind of sad.
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The chances of Greenblatt or one of his colleagues at the top passing on a reboot of The Office in the interests of artistic integrity are, quite frankly, laughable.
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The network is hemorrhaging viewers, and the fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants daily desperation that now oozes from its Bristol, Connecticut headquarters is both laughable and sad.
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One particularly laughable sequence has Jane, filthy and sodden and chained to a steamboat rail, communing with an obviously CGI butterfly, while Rom keeps a predatory eye on her.
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"The Republican Party's attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the republic," he wrote on May 18.
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"The claim that this was a fake coup is no more credible than the laughable claims that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the United States," he said.
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The film, written by Chris Frisina and directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, is trying for steamy but more often achieves laughable, thanks to numbing dialogue, especially for Ms. Lucas.
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"To have to reaffirm something by the very nature of being here and speaking at a ceremony about it is almost laughable," said White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
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" Ueberal added in a statement that the president's indignation is "laughable" but said people shouldn't overlook the fact that "the persecution of critical journalists is bitter reality in Turkey.
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"If you're a company like Ali Baba, the idea that having to pay a victim $300 is going to change your behavior is laughable, to be honest," Barr says.
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"My personal view is that his assertion would be laughable if it were not so dangerous," said Harley Balzer, a professor emeritus at Georgetown University and a Russia expert.
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An orphaned cookie finds himself driven to a life of crime after learning his dream of becoming a princess is, to other people in Ooo, unattainable, and even laughable.
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Kushner&aposs comment sparked immediate ridicule online from people who think that it&aposs laughable to cite a reading list as evidence of competency to negotiate Middle East relations.
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The idea that it's just fine for a President of the United States to ask for foreign countries to investigate a political rival because he's, uh, frustrated, is laughable.
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"The breadth of that claim of executive privilege is breathtaking and insupportable and indeed, at times, it was laughable," Schiff, the top Democrat on the panel, told reporters Thursday.
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But in the mid-1970s, the Illuminati made a marked comeback thanks to a literary trilogy that gave the group the simultaneously spooky and laughable image it holds today.
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Safe sex advice for trans folk is so woefully inadequate it would almost be laughable if it weren't for the astonishing rates of HIV within the trans femme population.
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Although its techniques might seem quaint or even laughable by today's standards, her book made history as one of the first of its kind to be made specifically for women.
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Alas, on Tuesday, AT&T issued a laughable statement saying it supports net neutrality, but it might need "fast lanes" to keep self-driving cars from slamming into each other.
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These sometimes laughable pleas for help show that launching DDoS has become an attractive activity for hackers of all skills levels, and even those who have no skills, want in.
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It's honestly laughable how good the symbolism was — stepping back from the questions of college to be together, just the two of us, under this night full of stars. 228.
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Charging Trump for his comments about Russia would "turn campaign fluff into a crime" and would be laughable, said Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law professor and former U.S. prosecutor.
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Charging Trump for his comments about Russia would "turn campaign fluff into a crime" and would be laughable, said Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law professor and former U.S. prosecutor.
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"There is a crazed, dark poetry here, but Mary Lambert's direction of Pet Sematary captures none of it, and the film falls into a flat, frequently laughable literalism," he wrote.
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Prigozhin has filed more than a dozen lawsuits against Yandex, Russia's main internet search engine, seeking to have news stories about himself removed, in an almost laughable attempt at anonymity.
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But wouldn't it be the perfect Game of Thrones twist if the most laughable idea — being diplomatic with what man perceives as a pure evil — winds up being the solution?
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But the aim isn't mockery or glib sensationalism, or the routine fusion of the laughable and the grotesque that has been a staple of Hollywood cool since the mid-1990s.
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It's all very funny, until you realize your taxes are funding all these laughable extravaganzas — and these extravaganzas might function as a smoke screen for Pruitt's threats to the environment.
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From the looks of the trailer, Iannucci applies the same absurdist, comedic take to communism and death that he's used to make America's bleak political shit-show even more laughable.
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Some liberals might try to argue that just because a campus is flooded with Democrats doesn't mean they aren't also teaching conservative ideas, too, but such a position is laughable.
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If High-Rise weren't so straight-faced and ruthless, it would look like a Terry Gilliam movie, with a laughable manic anarchy lurking on the backside of every calm conversation.
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Now, Silicon Valley the series isn't so much making fun of the real Silicon Valley as it is basking in how fictional (and laughable) the reality can look to outsiders.
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In a news conference Monday, Shkolnik called the funds allocated to the problem "laughable" and said the cost of the entire remedy is more likely to be in the billions.
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That seems laughable now since the tail end of April saw the release of Starbucks' Unicorn Frappuccino that basically broke the internet and the brains of baristas across the country.
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It seemed quaint and almost laughable for showrunners to ask viewers to care that much about two Soviets locked in a duel whose ultimate geopolitical outcome was a foregone conclusion.
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He called it "laughable" that Democrats would claim they had something to do with Ryan's decision, and said polling showed the speaker with a significant advantage over either of them.
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Last week's "reporting" that Donald Trump had somehow referred to all illegal immigrants as "animals" instead of simply referring to MS-2628 gang members was so blatant it was laughable.
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In a Facebook post on Friday titled "Regarding Arse-inio Hall's laughable threats," O'Connor said she was "amused" by his accusations and added that authorities were taking her allegations seriously.
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The notion posited by Riley that Mexico is some kind of trade icon because it has trade deals with more nations than the United States is laughable on its face.
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She did fight back to break Williams when the American, seeded 25th despite her laughable ranking of 181st, was serving for the match at 5-3 up in the second.
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Looking at –the mild, amateur kink of the Polaroid studies next to his full-color centerfold spreads of burly, oiled biceps is both a little laughable and a little haunting.
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"Why is that?" he added Jake, it's laughable to watch you try to claim the moral high ground when the premise of Anderson's attack on me was false (as usual).
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Terms like 'frequencies' and 'vibrations' can feel laughable, given how the wellness industry has turned healing crystals into a billion-dollar industry that promises gemstones can heal what ails you.
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Regulators in the U.K. fined Facebook earlier this month for its role in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, though the $664,000 fine is laughable for a company of Facebook's size.
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In particular, the flash-forwards to the future (yes the show now contains a future timeline) and a mysterious "her" have taken the series' penchant for mystery to laughable degrees.
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Future's alleged baby mama is bringing receipts in the lawsuit the rapper brought against her ... calling his invasion of privacy suit laughable 'cause his tea's been spilled PLENTY of times.
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It is a sort of implicit running assertion that the edges of acceptable American political discourse — edges set by previous generations, like the one that fought the Nazis — are laughable.
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The union's boat ban is laughable, given the root causes behind the surge of south-north migration: war, unemployment, social unrest, terror, religious oppression, all worsened by Africa's skyrocketing birthrates.
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It would have been laughable to even suggest that when the Pelicans were in the midst of a 303-game losing streak that dumped them into a 6-22 hole.
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Considering the damage and misinformation that can (and has) been spread on Facebook via political ads, flagging an ad because it has fake buttons is a laughable level of technicality.
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"Any notion that there's some kind of competition between Haley and Tillerson is laughable," said James J. Carafano, a Heritage Foundation fellow and a member of the Trump transition team.
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If that's the case, Biden's "buy-in" not only makes the Obamacare penalty seem laughable in comparison, it's also a risibly stupid way to provide health care, not just coverage.
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"At the end of the day, the crime I'm being accused of — a crime of sending gift cards — it would be laughable if it wasn't really happening," Mr. Young said.
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It's a shame that she gets saddled, at the end, with a laughable voice-over, which is tacked on as one last tribute to the effort made by her saviors.
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"This is laughable coming from Evan Jenkins, a former liberal Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton, cap-and-trade, ObamaCare, taxpayer-funded abortions and gun control," said Nachama Soloveichik, Morrisey's spokeswoman.
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" Os Keyes, a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington who studies algorithmic bias, told Motherboard that "the new HUD rule would be laughable if its consequences weren't so horrifying.
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Trump's lies were so over-the-top, so -- in a way -- laughable, that people found (and find) them endearing in an eye-roll-y, did-you-hear-what-he-said?
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For good measure, Trump said he'd work with Putin on a new joint effort to combat election hacking, a comment that would be laughable if its implications weren't so dire.
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If you've been paying attention to the way Congress works these days, the idea of both houses coming together to oppose each agreement individually in a short time should be laughable.
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As for battery life, on our rundown test, it lasted a laughable three hours and six minutes, which is a quarter of what you get on a lot of flagship devices.
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" Sanders added that CNN has "50-plus" journalists who hold passes: "So the idea that they aren't able to get information that they need from the White House is frankly laughable.
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"I am a very private person and would normally never answer to gossip and stories that are so ridiculous that they are laughable," Chung wrote in a statement posted on Instagram.
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That would be laughable if it didn't seem too soft on someone close to far-right parties in Europe, including the National Front in France and the Northern League in Italy.
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The caveat here is that sci-fi adventure won as a comedy, a category choice so laughable that host Ricky Gervais took every opportunity to giggle at the absurdity of it.
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As you may have noticed lately, the temperature outdoors currently registers somewhere between oppressive desert heat and swamp-like humidity, making even the faintest idea of getting dressed a laughable fantasy.
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It may sound laughable, but it's a question judges face all the time: Will justice be served with a long sentence in state prison, a far harsher environment than county jail?
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"Putting together a handbook after all this time is laughable," said Peter Isely, who was abused by a priest as a boy and now heads the advocacy group Ending Clergy Abuse.
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"The idea of one of his long list of political rivals…occupying his office is not just laughable but a threat to the nation's survival, in his opinion," the author contends.
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Now they've raised close to $22016 million more for the beefier Mate X, a laughable 20203,22020 percent beyond its funding goal with five days still to go in the Indiegogo campaign.
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A Danish zoo shot and killed Marius, a healthy giraffe in…Read more ReadThe idea that the public deserves to see animals like Harambe for purposes of education is also laughable.
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But here's the funny thing, in a tragically laughable way of course: we already know how to reduce gun violence and gun crimes because we've already done it many times before.
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America is no longer seeking to extend its influence in the Pacific, and the idea of it eagerly offering military aid to an ally seems laughable in Donald Trump's transactional world.
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And in the process, the laughable argument, made by CNN's Christiane Amanpour and others, that scrutiny around her health is a sexist exercise only somehow becomes part of an adult conversation.
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But the obstacle course of requirements and expectations that entrepreneurs of color must overcome before receiving funding is laughable when you consider how many booze-delivery apps get seven-figure deals.
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Claims that the restrictions are needed to protect against voter fraud are laughable — in person voting fraud cases have occurred at a rate of only between 220006 percent and 2202 percent.
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CeCe plays the male diva role to perfection here, instilling every word with the kind of urgency and intensity that'd be laughable and hammy if it didn't feel so fucking real.
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And, lest you wonder, yes, Clapper was sent a copy of the McCullough memo, which makes his letter to Congress a few months later all the more laughable, if not despicable.
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That his image on the world stage is not laughable or grotesque and that these voting blocks can see him side-by-side with a world leader and hold his own.
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As with most things Trump-related, the form that this ascriptive impressiveness takes can be mapped with laughable ease over whatever failing he is most keen to conceal at that moment.
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Anyone who listened to his Helsinki press conference -- in contrast to his closed-door meeting with Putin, where only translators heard what was said -- knows this clean-up effort is laughable.
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According to a report from Iran's student news agency ISNA, the country's oil minister said the production freeze is "laughable," because it does not allow Iran to regain its production share.
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Conservative Robert Jenrick, a minister at the finance department, said Corbyn's words were "laughable coming from the Labour Party who oversaw millions of jobs lost and a record decline in manufacturing".
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My classes weren't textbook dependent, which left money for pricey photo-editing software, and a desktop workstation that while powerful at the time, would be laughable today (16MB of RAM baby!).
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Something tells me that getting a totally baseless multi-million dollar valuation in the real world of startup funding, where "unicorns" are not a totally laughable concept, would've been much easier.
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Trump said "the risk to the American people remains very low" and made the now laughable assertion that "we're going to be pretty soon at only five people" with the coronavirus.
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Similarly, the idea that Amazons cut off one of their breasts to improve their bow skills is laughable to any woman who has managed to master archery with their chest intact.
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Detractors consider it a blatant, bizarre and laughable invitation for classic Chicago-style corruption, and point to the latest investigation into the city's longest-serving alderman as a case in point.
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Accordingly, when scandals arise, members pass legislation named for public consumption, like the laughable Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge Act which, notably, does not stop members from trading on congressional knowledge.
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"The New Yorker and Ronan Farrow's suggestion that AMI engages in any practice that would allow it to hold influence over the President of the United States is laughable," it said.
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The idea that inflation has been low lately because productivity growth has been strong seems laughable everywhere except Silicon Valley because economic statistics have documented a global slowdown in productivity growth.
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But, the Cosmo is calling BS ... saying in new court docs Simpson's reputation is already so bad, that the notion allegations of drunken shenanigans could make him look worse is LAUGHABLE!
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In his most serious efforts, the President has shown a remarkable willingness to use the power of his pulpit to whip up new fears that are too realistic to be laughable.
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The president and the Trump Organization last week hired lawyers to keep an eye on the Trumps, a laughable ploy that doesn't meet ethical or anti-corruption standards and constitutional requirements.
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"So the idea that he cannot comment on Stephon Clark, that he doesn't have a comment on the Alton Sterling case is laughable, and it's quite frankly sad," Symone Sanders concluded.
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His name-calling and innuendo, including the suggestion that Ted Cruz's father was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, would have been laughable if they hadn't been so destructive.
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So not laughable, after all, especially since much of the stolen timber has routinely been making its way from the Amazon port of Iquitos to American lumber yards and D.I.Y. stores.
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He also billed himself as achieving "laughable ventriloquial effects and necromantic feats," and carried the title the "Royal conjuror" thanks to an 1866 performance for the Prince and Princess of Wales.
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Paying $5 for an app with simple counting functionality might seem laughable, and there are many free apps on both Apple and Google's app stores to support smokers looking to quit.
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For a lesser phone, these deficiencies might be laughable, but for iPhone's legions of fans, gaining the ability to do something Palm had offered since the early 2000s was cause for celebration.
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I've spent the past 119.203 years living in Massachusetts and then Wisconsin, and I find it laughable that an academic institution would shut down in a panic for an inch of snow.
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"It was a very ambitious statement [and] kind of laughable at the time," says Wang, who made the proclamation in a 2013 mission statement when he had just four or five employees.
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It's an incredibly lopsided collection of old and new ideas, balanced and unbalanced systems, good and bad UI, intuitive and baffling combat, beautiful and repulsive graphics, and excellent and laughable voice acting.
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The tiny glass bottle of paint for your fingernails might sound like a laughable investment when compared to $3,000 leather, but if you find your perfect pink, it'll stay with you forever.
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Over the years, inquiries about her outfits (even the looks on Full House, which she admits can be "laughable" now) became commonplace, one of the driving forces behind the creation Staying Stylish.
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And it's no coincidence that, while they exist everywhere, these stories are coming out of precarious industries like media, TV, and film, where the very notion of a "meritocracy" has become laughable.
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The idea that someone who finds herself running a hedge or pension fund will see betting on a nuclear war as a good and fruitful use of her skill set is laughable.
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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lambasted Donald Trump's foreign policy platform as "dangerously incoherent" in a speech on Thursday that cast her Republican rival as both a frightening and laughable figure.
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You take something that is such an astronomically large task for an individual that it's almost laughable to think about — one person writing an entire book, in charge of this entire world.
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If the idea is to own something passed down through generations, the momentary cutting-edge lifespan of most gadgets (two years, if you're lucky) makes the Tag Heuer Connected a laughable proposition.
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When a network show like Riverdale is birthing memes left and right, or earnestly walking through plotlines about a street drug called Jingle Jangle, '90s nostalgia feels quaint in a laughable way.
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When Trump claims that he is one of the world's greatest businessman and worth $10 billion — it's laughable based on his bankruptcies, lawsuits and near-total lack of transparency about his assets.
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BECAUSE AFTER THIS LATEST NUCLEAR BOMB THAT THEY'VE SET OFF, THE LATEST I READ THIS MORNING WAS THAT THE NORTH KOREANS ARE SAYING THAT THIS IS LAUGHABLE, THE IDEA OF ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS.
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"It's absolutely laughable for Joy Reid to host a town hall on racism while failing to account or be held accountable for her own bigotry," conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News.
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Despite the laughable fiction of media hacking, which mostly entails random key smashing and screaming " I'm in!" while looking at lines of nonsensical code, there is something to be said for it.
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Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashaar Jaafari hit back, saying it was "laughable" for Kerry to cite eyewitness accounts when, he claimed, "thousands of people" in the area hadn't seen any jets.
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The House is very unlikely to allow the bill past it, and even if it did, the notion of the president signing off on something undermining his own administration's efforts is laughable.
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So though it seems laughable, even a third-place finish behind Trump and Cruz could be a minor victory for him if he hugely outperforms Jeb Bush like he did in Iowa.
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" In an editorial published late Wednesday, the publication's editorial board called Trump's proposal a "laughable stunt by a gang of plutocrats looking to enrich themselves at the expense of the country's future.
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The whole idea of this workshop, then, seemed a little laughable—but at the same time, I couldn't help but wonder what these old men had to say about handling loitering youths.
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Or rather, he multi-tracked 44 different cellos for the Bowie track "Everyone Says 'Hi'," which seems laughable until you realize how many instruments go into making a grand piece of music.
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His effort to become a more dynamic speaker was 50 percent "talk louder" and 50 percent "try to force the crowd into awkward call-and-response chants," and it was honestly laughable.
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The article portrays Buss as a nitwit with a horrendous work ethic, prone to making laughable guarantees that top free agents (Howard, Anthony, Durant, even LeBron James) would sign with the Lakers.
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" She continued, "But as an explanation for #OscarsSoWhite, Maher's blame game is so laughable that even a blogger posting on conservative Alan B. West's eponymous website thought it mixed apples with oranges.
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He's had 40 years to do his time, and the fact that he's seeking special treatment is laughable — regardless of his contribution to film or what Adrien Brody or Johnny Depp think.
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The landlord originally sued A$AP for more than $100k, claiming the rapper turned a closet into a recording studio and damaged the downstairs bathroom -- all of which A$AP finds laughable.
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Not to mention how laughable it is to think that a format on "The Dr. Oz Show" would lead to any serious or respectable discussion of any real health issues surrounding Trump.
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"It went from being laughable to be what I consider to be dangerous," said Richard L. Hasen, a professor and election law expert at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law.
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" Wigmore told me it was "laughable" to suggest that Paderina or her family had Mafia or intelligence connections, arguing, "They would have been either very rich or very powerful—they were neither.
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Today, the idea of moving to San Francisco penniless, and of then being able to buy sizable properties and raise three children on a single salary—as a grocer, nonetheless—is laughable.
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But the youth council of the Ijaw ethnic group called that statement "highly ridiculous and laughable", adding that "the issues at stake are completely beyond the capacity of oil companies to resolve".
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The filmmakers turned "an ending that could have been either laughable or appalling into something so effortlessly heartfelt as to be nearly sublime," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
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Supporters also say it is laughable that some liberals, particularly allies of Mr. Sanders, have described Mr. O'Rourke as a squishy moderate because of a congressional record that sometimes veered toward centrism.
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This is the '16 Browns all over again: let everyone walk, field a laughable offensive line, bamboozle fans with talk of hidden roster gems, and use Josh McCown until he breaks. 7.
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In a statement to Politico, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, dismissed as "laughable" the Democrats' assertion that Mr. Trump's behavior in the Ukraine matter should lead to his impeachment.
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The idea that private equity could continue to produce an internal rate of return, or IRR, of 20% to 25% is "laughable" with bond yields as low as they are, she said.
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They portrayed the president as genuinely concerned with corruption in Ukraine — an assertion Democrats called "laughable" — and said he was simply protecting the separation of powers by fighting Democrats' requests and subpoenas.
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Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are back for Season 4, starring as 20-something New Yorkers who breeze through their millennial lives, despite the city's many frustrations and their laughable bad luck.
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One key to accomplishing that is a strict avoidance of caricature, but the notion that a "Law & Order" franchise might achieve such discipline is almost as laughable as Ice-T's one-liners.
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" A spokesman for Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said it was "laughable" to think the editorial could have authored the column, bemoaning that "dignified public servants are forced to deny being the source.
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"It would be laughable that the Republican nominee for president has allowed his campaign to be overtaken by Breitbart and Infowars," Palmieri said aboard Clinton's plane en route to a Seattle fundraiser.
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Not only is this survey limited in general, the fact that it completely refused to represent any other racial group than white people should make it irrelevant (or laughable) from a scientific standpoint.
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That is undeniable, and if they try to argue against that, I think it'd be laughable, but they have yet to produce a movie that has had any significant impact on American culture.
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"As laughable as it is to believe that I might actually endorse these people, to anyone unsure on my standpoint regarding hate-based groups: No, I don't support these people in any way."
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The confusion can best be explained by looking at the XR, which you might describe as the "budget" next-generation phone if it weren't laughable to call a $220 device a budget anything.
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It became especially laughable when Altman wrote a blog post titled "Time to Take a Stand," in which he called for the tech industry to resist Trump's egregious disregard for humanity and decency.
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Once upon a time, every medium in our incomprehensibly vast modern media landscape — photography, recorded music and radio, cinema, TV, video games, the Wii — was once just somebody's impossible dream, a laughable absurdity.
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The incompetent dad became a mainstay of popular culture — the more incompetent, the more laughable and ultimately loveable — because who could really expect a man, of all people, to care for his children?
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In the midst of a glut of reporting so sexist that it would be laughable if it weren't so exhausting, Harrison, at least, had the distinction of being compared to another female athlete.
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It's actually laughable how Leto has been front-and-center throughout this year-long publicity campaign, but kudos to the Warners team for realizing early on that they had little else to sell.
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It sounds like a joke: That Yahoo would create an app in 2016 — amid an ever accelerating tailspin toward irrelevancy — that essentially amounts to a repackaged version of Yahoo Answers is certainly laughable.
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Gallo is seventh in Offensive Real Plus-Minus, making a laughable 56 percent of his wide-open threes, averaging more points than he ever has, with career highs in points, rebounds, and PER.
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His devotion to rock 'n' roll ideals is resolute, and he has no interest in contemporary pop music; the idea of him listening to any of SXSW's many electronic acts is borderline laughable.
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Despite McConnell's comments to CNN on Tuesday, when he called Democrats' complaints "laughable" and said whatever comes next "will be about as transparent as it can be," this is a legislative bum's rush.
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"This effort is as laughable as it is inadequate, and clearly demonstrates Lyft's lack of commitment to making its service accessible to people who need vehicles with lifts or ramps," the lawsuit alleges.
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Many in the nascent tech industry didn't foresee the rise of the personal computer and thought it laughable that people would want a small computer, with its puny processing power, in their home.
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But the fact that The First Purge fails to address it as a serious concern for women walking the streets on a night where there are no consequences for criminal acts is laughable.
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The Olympians are the outliers; their words a dissent to the daily chorus that tells us, and tells us, and tells us that larger bodies are loathsome, are laughable, are undeserving of love.
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Admittedly, it is laughable to hear the candidates, at a fancy meal, talk about watching Trump for cues on which utensil they should use for each course, as if he were Emily Post.
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Sisi's popularity isn't as rock solid as it once was (while he received 97% of the vote against laughable "opposition," turnout slid to 41%), and Egypt is facing real security and economic challenges.
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The idea that youth culture can be summed up by sampling a thin wedge of university educated, Guardian reading, acai drinking, Instagram filtering, Ocado ordering, chuckling neeks, is not only limiting; it's laughable.
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The implication that Kanye's cult label is for everyone is laughable when it's clearly not for poor people, fat people, or people who aren't hypebeasts, ever eager to cop the latest Supreme drop.
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Obama's promise that Garland will "recognize the limits of the judiciary's role" with "a commitment to impartial justice rather than any particular ideology" is laughable given the records compiled by Sotomayor and Kagan.
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Trump released a clean bill of health from his longtime personal physician last year that was widely panned as laughable for lacking details and offering an over-the-top portrait of Trump's health.
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Even putting aside the laughable notion that this administration cares about minority voting rights, this argument is bunkum — the Justice Department has been enforcing that law without access to such data for decades.
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The new Prius 4 tops out around 105 mph, while a police cruiser can do at least 120 mph -- and their 0-60 times are a laughable 10.5 seconds compared to 6 flat.
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The M.P.A.A.'s current rating system is a pale shadow of Hollywood's old Hays Code, the now-laughable list of rules that for years had onscreen husbands and wives sleeping in separate beds.
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Republicans largely stayed in line behind Mr. Trump: Senator Mitch McConnell dismissed the developments as "laughable," and Representative Kevin McCarthy complained that the whistle-blower "has no primary sources," contrary to the report.
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The purported purpose of Mr. Trump's commission — to restore confidence in elections — is laughable, not only because Republicans have spent the past decade sowing seeds of doubt with hyped-up tales of fraud.
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This breathlessly melodramatic thriller shouldn't be taken as a psychological case study, any more than Mr. Shyamalan's laughable "Lady in the Water" should be mined for clues about the habits of film critics.
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BAILEY There's no doubt that the Netflix model is deeply, deeply flawed, both in terms of its laughable "classics" selection and the speed with which many contemporary independent films crawl to the service.
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"This is laughable coming from Evan Jenkins, a former liberal Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton, cap-and-trade, ObamaCare, taxpayer-funded abortions and gun control," said Morrisey's spokeswoman Nachama Soloveichik at the time.
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I think a majority of American Jews would agree, no matter how one feels about settlements, that the idea that the U.N. is an honest broker when it comes to Israel is laughable.
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The Steam Machines finally launched in 2014 with a laughable, confusing array of computers, some far more expensive than a console, and they only supported a fraction of the games in Steam's catalog.
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Mr. Sessions, who has suggested that judicial nominees may be committing crimes when they withhold relevant information from the Senate, now gives laughable explanations for the truck-size holes in his own résumé.
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"It's laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like Cohen at his word, and pathetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread his lies," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.
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Gallo is seventh in Offensive Real Plus-Minus, making a laughable 21974 percent of his wide-open threes, averaging more points than he ever has, with career highs in points, rebounds, and PER.
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Burundi's embattled government tightens its grip Burundi's embattled government tightens its grip Agathon Rwasa, the first deputy of Burundi's national assembly, says the ruling party's narrative of a stabilized, peaceful country is laughable.
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In a society so saturated with sex, and where the overwhelming majority of adults have sex outside of the confines of marriage, it can sound laughable to argue that sex, for women, remains stigmatized.
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"Lions don't compare to humans," he smiled to his BT Sport questioner in quite perfect Zlatan fashion, suggesting that the very idea there could be a better marksman than him out there was laughable.
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Anyone with a cable TV subscription can relate to the onslaught of prescription drug commercials, and the laughable formula they all use in order to push you to inquire about them with your doctor.
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This is a pretty laughable suggestion, and even if it were true, it self-destructs: if companies have no problem subjecting themselves to these restrictions, how can they be as onerous as they say?
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In the early part of the 20th century, American Halloween costumes were usually DIY projects: homemade outfits for child-sized firemen, police officers, and clowns that looked quaint or even laughable by modern standards.
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Image: The first post about Slimgur going down, on Voat's Slimg communityThis laughable game of thread telephone started innocently enough on Reddit knockoff Voat (where r/Pizzagate and r/fatpeoplehate fled after being banned).
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If you don't go through the process, your drone's range will be limited to a laughable 164-foot (50-meter) radius, and it won't be able to fly higher than 98 feet (30 meters).
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If such a memo is presented to the court, and Judge Bates finds it less laughable than the 2017 memo, Mr Trump may go ahead with his wish to rescind protections for young immigrants.
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" Ernesto Falcon, who serves as legislative counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advocacy organization for digital rights and civil liberties, said the suggestion that this move would be good for consumers is "laughable.
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Since Disney just acquired Fox's entire entertainment catalogue, it'd be laughable to think Square Enix won't push the release date back another year or two to add a world based on Married With Children.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lambasted Donald Trump's foreign policy platform as "dangerously incoherent" in a speech on Thursday that cast her Republican rival as both a frightening and laughable figure.
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They were played, effectively, as the Nick and Nora Charles of comics — until the very controversial storyline 2004 miniseries "Identity Crisis," in which Sue was brutally murdered by the previously laughable supervillain Doctor Light.
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Many critics are shouting out how much better Wonder Woman is than its fellow DC Comics flicks — which tend to be overstuffed with laughable writing, a barrage of special effects, and monotonous action scenes.
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But what it would take to attempt to become a band like Coldplay would not only be laughable to our fans and admirers, but like, I don't want to write songs with super-producers.
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This is great for branded marketing interactions, where expecting users to download an app is pretty laughable; moving this process to the web with a link or a QR code makes life much easier.
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NBA star Lebron James on Tuesday criticized Trump for not inviting the WNBA champions for a visit to the White House, telling reporters that it was "laughable" for the Minnesota Lynx to be excluded.
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The veiled suggestion that the USB Type-A, HDMI port or SD card will be anywhere near obsolete by the time Apple offers another MacBook refresh occurs in a few years is just laughable.
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The Family Medical Leave act was passed in 1993, and since then men have been legally entitled to the same parental leave as women (those laughable unpaid six weeks, for certain types of workers).
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A former Obama trade aide told the Post that it was "laughable" to suggest the Trump administration was merely following an Obama-era plan, when Trump had already made seismic changes to Obama's policies.
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The Democrat-aligned media ran a number of laughable hit pieces on him, leading to such revelations as his purchase of baseball tickets on a credit card and some beer-drinking in his youth.
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West's version of Batman was forced into repeatedly laughable imbroglios, which included him fending off sharks, running with lit bombs and walking along the sides of tall buildings engaged in full conversations with Robin.
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Those in the political center were demonized as out-of-touch elites, as though the people leading the insurgency were ordinary folks — which, in the case of the Brexit campaign, is a laughable proposition.
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But like John Ashbery, a clear influence, Prikryl is most fascinated by the unpredictable zigs and zags of an imagination in motion, and language's laughable (but reliably amusing) incapacity to map that course precisely.
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"The idea that he would say that the president poses any type of threat is truly laughable, considering he was part of the administration that allowed Russia to interfere in our election," she said.
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Still, all of that came before September, when Zuckerberg apologized for comments he made in December 2016, when he said it was "laughable" to think Facebook's technology might have impacted the U.S. presidential election.
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Uniquely among those competing at the games, ice skaters have latitude to forgo uniforms for costumes and, as anyone who has seen "I, Tonya" knows, the results can range from laughable to deeply sad.
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"My personal view is that his assertion would be laughable if it were not so dangerous," Harley Balzer, a professor emeritus at Georgetown University and a Russia expert, previously told The New York Times.
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" Former Obama administration officials told the Post, however, that they never signed off on the plan to remodel the offices, with one former aide telling the news outlet that such a claim is "laughable.
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All laughable plights compared to what the bar-headed goose endures in its migration over the Himalayas, where it hits altitudes of 26,000 feet, all without the luxuries of pressure control and complimentary peanuts.
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At the time, SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner slammed the claims as "monstrous and laughable" here SAP shut down an internal probe into the concerns raised by Waldbaum in May 2013, the suit alleges.
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The accomplishments of the last five seasons have made Swinney's framing seem laughable, even though Clemson currently stands as a 5½-point underdog to L.S.U. in the title game (with gamblers heavily backing L.S.U.).
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And while it is somewhat laughable that an entity with a mission of protecting business would claim to represent the consumer viewpoint at all, there is also a major gap in the chamber's argument.
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Jerry Jones says claims of a secret plan to force him to give up control of the Dallas Cowboys are "laughable and ridiculous" ... and says the idea of an overthrow is just plain silly.
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"Joaquin Phoenix winning Best Actor for playing the Joker fits him to a T because his comments would have been laughable were they not so offensive," the Pennsylvania Republican said in a statement this week.
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He tried to promote the stereotype that women are "too emotional" to lead -- a laughable idea, especially coming from Trump, with his seemingly daily public rants, usually delivered on Twitter, over the past two years.
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