Preposterous bullshit, maybe, but very much the kind of preposterous bullshit I'm into.
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"It was a preposterous position—preposterous—and they had no fallback," a senior Administration official told me.
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The main way Far From Home deflates that preposterous backstory is by acknowledging up front that it's preposterous.
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Clinton supporters find this chain of reasoning preposterous — often so preposterous that they don't recognize many people believe it.
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Nuclear power was pursued as an economic panacea and a source of prestige, with Politburo officials imposing preposterous timetables and equally preposterous cost-cutting measures.
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It was preposterous at its inception, it has remained preposterous, and yet every school is doing everything it can do to move up that list.
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" Robbins' lawyers said Kay's accusations were "false and preposterous.
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It feels preposterous — but so does almost everything else.
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The second Preposterous Punt came from the New England 37.
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"All I know is they have made a preposterous claim."
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How could we, after all, ignore a moment so preposterous?
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Benioff claimed that the materials never arrived, which seems preposterous.
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The notion that Kasich could win the nomination is preposterous.
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The allegations, which Mr Wynn called "preposterous", stretch back decades.
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That's preposterous, and a growing amount of data proves it.
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The idea of a first gentleman would have been preposterous.
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He is aware of how preposterous this might look. 🙄
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What sounded preposterous to the village residents was the price.
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The only problem with the idea is that it's preposterous.
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And of course this all was preposterous and it collapsed.
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Suddenly, the Galaxy Fold's price doesn't seem quite as preposterous.
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It made aspiring to reach a competitive level seem preposterous.
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Mallya has denied wrongdoing, calling the charges against him "preposterous".
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The notion of soothing someone without feeding them felt preposterous.
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The idea was not only preposterous, it was also insulting.
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It's so preposterous that I can't even relate to it.
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It's fun to joke about, because it's just so preposterous.
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"The $80-mark ... (doesn't) sound too preposterous, actually," he added.
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Like Trump himself, it's preposterous, but it's not going away.
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Robinson made this seem real and ridiculous, poignant and preposterous.
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The Conspiracy collection has been a resounding, almost preposterous success.
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It's kind of preposterous that people put up with it.
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"We've gone beyond the preposterous," he said, according to CNN.
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In contrast to the "preposterous scenarios" imagined by the pro forma feminist dystopia, Gilbert notes that it's those settings like Braithwaite's, those that "aren't preposterous at all," that rightly strike us as even more alarming.
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The drink was as delicious as its rushed delivery was preposterous.
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"Selectively editing this transcript is preposterous," Ryan said in a statement.
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Will the palace of American law also enter a preposterous phase?
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" This struck Daugherty as preposterous: the file's name was "insuranceaging_6.05.071.pdf.
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" In a statement to the paper, Wynn called the allegations "preposterous.
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I do not see a purpose in addressing each preposterous lie.
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In a scathing brief filed Tuesday, Robbins Geller said that's preposterous.
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Predictions were inaccurate in every single year, sometimes by preposterous margins.
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Can we understand how everything that emanates from that is preposterous?
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THIS IDEA THAT WE SHIP JOBS OVERSEAS IS PREPOSTEROUS AS WELL.
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"This is absolutely untrue and preposterous," she said in an email.
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He turned 80 in October, but the notion still seems preposterous.
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In such a seismically unstable area, the very idea is preposterous.
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It's preposterous: She's a giant, a goddess and he's … Seth Rogen.
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The anti-male bias has started to border on the preposterous.
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Mac delights in showing the preposterous elements of our historical memory.
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"How I despised her, with her preposterous literary pretensions!" she wrote.
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They could be better than ever, as preposterous as that sounds.
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His answers veered from preposterous to incoherent and sometimes dangerously disturbing.
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On the surface this might not seem like a preposterous idea.
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Our critic Manohla Dargis found the movie "preposterous," but not unenjoyable.
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The president, along with practically every other significant world leader, travels to London for a state funeral, and a preposterous number of terrorists with an equally preposterous supply of guns and explosives are waiting for him.
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It's a story so preposterous, you'd be forgiven for assuming it's scripted.
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The claims are preposterous, ludicrous, and defy truth, common sense, and logic.
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At first, it seemed like a preposterous goal, but Klinsmann somehow delivered.
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As the astonished Capone left the courthouse he said, 'This is preposterous.
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But if you've inherited the money, like Kushner or Trump, it's preposterous.
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So they'll say something preposterous, and I've learned not to tolerate preposterousness.
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It is a preposterous and transparent PR stunt that will not succeed.
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The rest of the world's scientists continue to find Japan's actions preposterous.
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Today, it seems preposterous — especially after this month's free agency fever dream.
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He isn't, but to fake a "blaccent" would be, for him, preposterous.
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But it's best not to think about this preposterous story too hard.
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" Cantor: said the notion that Ryan would "abdicate and leave is preposterous.
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And muddying this issue are the preposterous denials we hear from campaigns.
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It's preposterous, surreal, and a fascinating departure from a typical music video.
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At least it's not as preposterous as the NBA's Smoothie King Center.
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Anyway, it all comes to a soggy, preposterous conclusion at Niagara Falls.
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It's preposterous for Trump to resist determining how widespread this epidemic is.
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This entire project would have seemed preposterous to Ms. Morales's younger self.
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How did this preposterous idea leap to the forefront of conservative thinking?
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Spiro's assertion was convincing on some level, but it was also preposterous.
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Wynn says "the idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous."
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I'm sometimes described as a "pioneer" in broadcast journalism — which is preposterous.
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"This preposterous change by the Trump-Pence administration is truly beyond reasonable."
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"This preposterous change by the Trump-Pence administration is truly beyond reasonable."
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The whole preposterous charade of royalty was performed perpetually in her presence.
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"The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous," he said.
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US admiral: Chinese opposition 'preposterous' Harris said it was "preposterous" that China would take economic steps to try to stop South Korea from receiving a defensive system, which the US insists does not pose a threat to Beijing.
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BENNETT: That is the most preposterous thing I could possibly imagine him saying.
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And he has said some really preposterous things in the last few days.
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It's a preposterous notion to me, one that invites a kind of antagonism.
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The possibility of finding them attractive on any level would have been preposterous.
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It looks like a preposterous number of Hula-Hoops, to most people anyway.
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" In a statement to PEOPLE, Weinstein's attorney Ben Brafman called the claims "preposterous.
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The answer is no less preposterous than its predecessor's solution: a head cold.
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In his hands, painting and paint become a platform for preposterous visual proposals.
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"Selectively editing this transcript is preposterous," he said in a statement. http://bit.
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Holding Trump's words accountable for the deeds of other world leaders is preposterous.
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His people generally seem cast from clichés to enact artificial, often preposterous scripts.
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Yet the idea that they are even in the same league is preposterous.
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The bots are not the only ones who come across as preposterous impostors.
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Peter Bone, co-founder of "Out" campaign Grassroots Out, called Macron's argument preposterous.
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Posing as a consultant, he helps ambitious small businesses try out preposterous schemes.
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Anna Sauerbrey BERLIN — It was the most preposterous mic drop in German history.
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Firedamp), even more preposterous place names (Galloping Fronds, Crumbling Outset) and absurd deaths.
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To a 19th-century Jew, it must have appeared preposterous — until it wasn't.
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It sounds like a preposterous scene straight from an old "Twilight Zone" episode.
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But that's preposterous: They already police their networks for pornography, and quite well.
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" The idea that "contraception would always prevent the conception" was, she said, "preposterous.
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" In statements, Wynn denied he had ever assaulted anyone, calling the idea "preposterous.
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Of course, any comparison between Giuliani and Jay is preposterous on multiple levels.
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Downtown Los Angeles actually has bustling nightlife today, which in 1982 seemed preposterous.
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As a painting-machine and painting, "The Lovers" verges on the exuberantly preposterous.
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This is obviously preposterous but let's keep going with it for a second.
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She won a yoghurt lid medal for her preposterous knowledge of the show.
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"It's preposterous," Law added at a news conference held with the other three.
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What leads people to genuinely believe things that other people might find preposterous?
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It's there in the hopes of a "brain transplant" from that preposterous Italian surgeon.
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The idea that diamonds are more romantic than emeralds is preposterous, a marketing ploy.
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Downsampling to 4K will also be an option, which sounds preposterous to even think.
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What we do want to watch is these women reacting to mildly preposterous situations.
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He considered the suggestion laughable, preposterous, pick your own adjective to describe such crazy.
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Trump's anger led to White House press secretary Sean Spicer's preposterous crowd size statement.
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"The claims are preposterous, ludicrous, and defy truth, common sense, and logic," he said.
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While these theories may sound preposterous, historyproves that truth is always stranger than fiction.
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Suggesting Pruitt's selection means the inevitability of dirty air and dirty water is preposterous.
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"The Girl on the Train" is a preposterous movie but not an unenjoyable one.
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SBK Holdings USA's lawyer called those accusations "irrelevant and preposterous" in a court filing.
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"Donald Trump is a preposterous golem who is afraid of Mexicans," the website says.
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"I said something preposterous," she told me of the meeting with Solls and Young.
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But there is a difference between aggressive and preposterous, and between truths and untruths.
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Justify the penalties on the preposterous grounds that allies threaten United States national security.
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Here Banville feels at home, just as I did all those preposterous years ago.
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Any claim that I withheld support for the fund is preposterous and completely illogical.
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" A day before, Mr. Wynn had dismissed any claims of sexual misconduct as "preposterous.
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The novel is sinister, vivid, dreamlike, preposterous and, at the same time, creepily plausible.
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" Pacelle called the industry income and employment numbers cited by Puerto Rican officials "preposterous.
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The guy was one of Hillary Clinton's supporters and now it's all so preposterous.
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She laughed out loud, thinking the idea was preposterous, and went back to sleep.
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"The notion that the election is rigged is preposterous if not insulting," Spencer said.
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Countless Kidz Bop lines are at once preposterous and more poignant than the original's.
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"As I have stated in the past, these claims are untrue and preposterous," Estey says.
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"This claim is preposterous and it never happened," Thomas told the publication through a spokesperson.
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The allegation that Mr. Long threw props at anyone, much less Mr. Martin, is preposterous.
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Truly preposterous in scale, MASS MoCA resembles a campus more than a typical art museum.
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Jobs based on which genitals you have – have you ever heard of anything more preposterous?
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Why had the detectives settled so quickly on such a preposterous theory of the case?
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There were nights I lay awake until morning, still electrified by a preposterous buzzer beater.
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It's preposterous if you think about it, breathtakingly audacious, but effective in the short term.
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"As I have stated in the past, these claims are untrue and preposterous," Estey said.
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The company, which is representing the CEO, says the premise of the suit is preposterous.
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Liberal journalists have not batted an eye over this unsubstantiated and preposterous claim of racism.
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The whole thing is somewhat preposterous because they've only been broken up for five years.
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Before we get into the details of this preposterous event, can we address the obvious?
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This sounds preposterous, because the FDA would never let such a drug reach the market.
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Nothing, however, can excuse the movie's preposterous depiction of Annu (a purely decorative Rooney Mara).
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When, last December, it hosted the latest global climate conference, it seemed a preposterous choice.
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I fully admit that in the first weeks of the project, I found it preposterous.
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It didn't take long to unearth the roots of the threat, preposterous as they were.
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When I sought answers from scientists, I assumed that they would find the question preposterous.
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Perhaps no player has a longer let-it-fly leash from preposterous distances than Curry.
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It's all marvelously preposterous and yet, at the same time, something important is at stake.
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Still, for Mr. Limbaugh, the idea that Mr. Trump had inspired bad behavior was preposterous.
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Eight years after its last season, "Prison Break" is back — and as preposterous as ever.
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" In 2018, Weinstein's then-attorney Benjamin Brafman called Sokola's claim, filed under Jane Doe, "preposterous.
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The idea that the Blue Line is somehow a new symbol of racism is preposterous.
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The Trump administration's immigration proposals have consistently been driven by politics, and are sometimes even preposterous.
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" When asked about accusations of fraudulent claims in the prospectus, Strauss said, "It is completely preposterous.
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"The accusations were inherently preposterous," attorney Mike Ware, of The Innocence Project of Texas, tells PEOPLE.
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" (March 18), Andrew Sullivan trivializes the impeachment and trial of President Andrew Johnson, calling it "preposterous.
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Many hedge funds thought this was preposterous, and aggressively shorted the oil and oil service stocks.
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" Of Trump, the company said: "Donald Trump is a preposterous golem who is afraid of Mexicans.
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But even accounting for that, the amount of coverage Fox News devotes to them is preposterous.
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It's borderline preposterous that Senate Republicans are spending any time indulging Trump in this whimsical selection.
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"What McConnell said was just preposterous and that's why I'm supporting this legislation," Schumer told us.
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It's kind of a preposterous idea, until you remember that drone technology is pretty decent now.
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That is the overall point, which is why you can catch them in these preposterous hypocrisy.
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The notion that a US president could be involved in something like that should seem preposterous.
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I think that's true about O.J. I think he's in jail on basically a preposterous case.
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YOU KNOW, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE IT UP AND THEN GET GOBBLED UP. SAUNDERS: THAT'S PREPOSTEROUS, RIGHT.
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And the plot is so preposterous that you kind of have to laugh at certain turns.
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Independent estimates found it may require a preposterous $110 billion to complete the whole MOX project.
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Nimbus colors, woozy noises, and wobbly objects can appear preposterous, generating phantasmagoria and feelings of disorientation.
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To name someone who doesn't understand that to become the nation's top environmental steward is preposterous.
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"Preposterous" and "absurd" were among the milder epithets that could be overheard in the multilingual din.
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"I just think it's preposterous that he's claiming he has done nothing like that," she said.
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The number of non-voters skyrockets in midterm elections and reaches preposterous proportions in local elections.
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I would now, and I find preposterous the innuendo that he somehow is a double agent.
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Heath's story, of course, was preposterous, but it didn't matter: People paid to see her anyway.
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The argument that this clerical discrepancy should keep the agency from regulating carbon dioxide is preposterous.
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What, she asked, could I possibly see in a film so preposterous and stylized, so retrograde?
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And yet the show, which knowingly leans deep into kitsch, is at once preposterous and delightful.
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"Anyone who knows Jeff knows how preposterous these accusations are," Geragos said in a phone interview.
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In the process, it indulges in preposterous twists and leaden dialogue about nature, nurture and conscience.
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Why, if "Suits" can catch you up in its characters' often preposterous crises, can't "My Struggle"?
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The argument for immunity from state criminal investigation or prosecution in such a situation is preposterous.
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" The broadcaster said, "The idea that this doesn't have something to do with race is preposterous.
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This all sounds preposterous ... and yet, Freddie actually can pulverize a walnut with a single squeeze.
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Ridley and Driver are downright valiant in their pursuit of tragic dignity in increasingly preposterous circumstances.
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It is difficult to recall a more historically inaccurate and preposterous statement by any American diplomat.
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"The prospect that contraception would always prevent the conception of a child is preposterous," Manning added.
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If that sounds preposterous, remind yourself who the president of the United States of America is.
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The notion that a US president could be involved in something like this should seem preposterous.
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The whole idea of the movie is so preposterous that it doesn't really need added jokes.
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But to go $220,220 in debt in order to secure a $220,13 tax cut is preposterous.
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Juul's claim is "preposterous" and "intentionally invented" to hurt Breja's reputation and employment prospects, the lawsuit alleges.
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Suspense, done well, captures the attention so there's no time to notice plot holes or preposterous coincidences.
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"The idea of looking at a screen while some cycling pro broadcasts encouragement is preposterous," he added.
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And of course, the idea that Mexico would pay for it has been preposterous since the beginning.
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"The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous," Wynn said in a statement on Friday.
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He&aposs playing a reality game here, he doesn&apost know what he&aposs doing is preposterous.
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Indeed, he said it would be "preposterous" to think any recent policy decision took politics into account.
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The episode is a preposterous black hole in the middle of the comedy, a grasping at gravitas.
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Preposterous things that streak too fast past the corner of your eye and get you all excited.
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But the notion that the storm thwarted racism, even temporarily, is as preposterous as it is pernicious.
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The critiques of Donald Trump made devastatingly clear that he's a preposterous, dangerous candidate for the presidency.
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"I never did, I never would, and that is preposterous that I would do that," Vindman replied.
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Of all the arguments advanced by the Trump forces, this has to be among the most preposterous.
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" They amounted to a "scorched-earth war against President Trump" that was "horrifically one-sided" and "preposterous.
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Perhaps this exhilarates Kavanaugh's most passionate opponents, but for the rest of us, it all seemed preposterous.
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"I think his ideas are preposterous," said Michael Chertoff, the former Homeland Security director and a Republican.
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While Brady showing up to the Durant meeting feels preposterous, the craziest thing is yet to come.
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He strenuously denied it: The idea that I'm "communicating" with Steve Bannon through an "intermediary" is preposterous.
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Wynn has called the claims "preposterous" and the board of Wynn Resorts has said it was investigating.
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He finds the idea preposterous and selfish, for good reasons, coming from his own experiences with her.
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It evokes all the preposterous mathematics—what can I live with, and what can I live without?
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The mere fact that we once again even entertained the notion of a government shutdown is preposterous.
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How naïve I was in 23 to think that I was an American living in preposterous times!
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It fumbles the issue it purports to address, and it eventually runs aground in a preposterous ending.
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Instead, Republican defenders have resorted to misrepresentations, a few outright lies, diversions and a couple preposterous assertions.
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At an extradition hearing in April, 227, Falciani appeared in thick glasses and a preposterous brown wig.
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" Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the archbishop of New York, called Mr. Bannon's comments "preposterous and rather insulting.
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That's highly unlikely—preposterous, even—but Kadyrov has made himself an irreplaceable part of the political system.
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Now let's establish upfront that mysteries, particularly British whodunnits, are as a rule full of preposterous dirtbags.
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The distance between what I like and what Instagram thinks I might like is oceanic, preposterous, deranged.
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I could not help but laugh because it was so preposterous, and so presumptuous, and self-serving.
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He obviously had maniacal perseverance, preposterous athleticism, and a sense of rhythm rivaling Damo Suzuki of Can.
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It's goofy as hell, but it's not even the most preposterous team-recorded anthem of that year.
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Computer animation renders possible the preposterous action associated with superpowers: energy bolts, collapsing skyscrapers, doorways to other dimensions.
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" He added: "It's preposterous and completely baseless for Mr. Avenatti to suggest that any materials have been destroyed.
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By Monday afternoon there were preposterous calls for the CIA and National Intelligence directors to resign in protest.
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"I can't for the life of me understand why Rinna would make such a preposterous accusation," she said.
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INGRAHAM: We&aposre not going to get past that, because as a legal matter that&aposs just preposterous.
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"It's not so preposterous to think of diplomacy as a bit like reality television," he wrote on Friday.
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The historical outline of The Favourite is real, even if the way the details are recounted is preposterous.
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" Wynn told the WSJ in a statement that it was "preposterous" that he "ever would assault any woman.
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To strip the hope and livelihood of a select few under the false guise of fear is preposterous.
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Mr Akufo-Addo won the election in 2016 with the preposterous promise of a factory in every district.
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Taking the experiences of marginalized people seriously makes the general superhero narrative collapse beneath its own preposterous cape.
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Using that as the gauge for this preposterous question lets you fit the entire world population inside Palestine.
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The financial penalties are "preposterous", says Alexis Ronickher, a partner at Katz, Marshall & Banks, who has represented whistleblowers.
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The assertion that Administrator Verma offered to fund the CSR in exchange for support for legislation is preposterous.
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Our founders would have found it preposterous, but that is what we have inherited in America in 2900.
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From the beginning, this appeared to be a preposterous promotion designed strictly to separate fools from their money.
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She finds the premise of The Handmaid's Tale preposterous, so sure that this fiction could ever mirror reality.
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"It's absolutely preposterous that someone would be prosecuting for passing gas on or at another person," he said.
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Birtherism was a preposterous lie, rooted in a racist desire to demean the nation's first African-American president.
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Deripaska rebuked the FBI's inquiries, calling their questions about his role in the campaign "preposterous," The Times reported.
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Regardless, a new Harvard-Harris poll just revealed 2628 percent of the country disagrees with this preposterous idea.
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Bald, dressed in black, and speaking in a semi-comical French accent, Barzaghi was given to preposterous utterances.
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That was preposterous: History hasn't discredited the complaints of blacks but rather has shown that they were muted.
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"It is a preposterous stretch," Eugene Kontorovich, a professor at George Mason's law school, writes in an email.
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For him, the European Union was "set up to take advantage" of the United States — a preposterous charge.
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Wynn denied the allegations, calling them "preposterous," but resigned as finance chair of the RNC later that month.
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It is completely preposterous to say that 12 people were pressured by society to come to this conclusion.
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One such critic was J.J. Abrams, the film's director, who called Rey's exclusion "preposterous," according to Entertainment Weekly.
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Born in Connecticut in 25, he moved to New York in 83 and was soon pitching preposterous hoaxes.
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The brilliance is Musk's Trump-like ability to get people to believe in him and his preposterous promises.
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"It's preposterous," said Relkin, who argues that the data underlying the 2018 snap removal study is now obsolete.
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That argument might seem preposterous — what's the point of seeking advice if you can't trust the advice giver?
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After defeating Djokovic for the Italian Open title, he won the French Open for a preposterous 12th time.
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Hasina's party won 288 of the 300 contested seats in Parliament, a preposterous 96 percent rate of victory.
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It was late 1990s in the best way, a preposterous proportion that somehow, on the body, landed naturally.
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Instead of laughing at this preposterous predicament, the art world marches on in standoffish seriousness, likely in stilettos.
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The movie gives Hopkins the most preposterous dialogue, and he delivers all of it like it's grand theater.
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ExxonMobil described the study, which accused the company of misleading the public about climate science, as "inaccurate and preposterous".
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Some come for practical tips, others to be entertained by a guy eating crazy stuff or enduring preposterous discomfort.
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Matt Johnson milks this preposterous idea for drama and laughs in Operation Avalanche, which opened at Sundance last week.
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And consumer advocates said Trump's "preposterous promises" would be dangerous and would hurt both consumers and the drug industry.
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What passes for policy in Trump-land is often impulse, better left unexplained because any explanation would sound preposterous.
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And the idea he grabbed a porn star and offered her money to come to his room was preposterous.
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The notion that millions of people voted illegally two months ago, and nobody noticed, is preposterous on its face.
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"The claims being made are beyond preposterous and clearly a knee-jerk reaction to Danielle's filing," her rep said.
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To Desautels, the idea that the government is stockpiling zero days for the purpose of mass surveillance is preposterous.
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" Bannon said the bishops "need illegal aliens to fill the churches," a charge the bishops called "preposterous" and "insulting.
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Even the most preposterous developments often hint at the fears and neuroses woven into the fabric of family life.
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"Donald Trump is a preposterous golem who is afraid of Mexicans," said Cards Against Humanity on its web site.
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Every near disaster in "Camp David" seems to spring up organically, even though in retrospect it's all hilariously preposterous.
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This political ploy is so transparent and preposterous that I strongly debated whether it was even worth a column.
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But the notion that Newman and Chiasson did not know they were trading on illegally disclosed information is preposterous.
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"One of the most preposterous hoaxes in the history of the planet," scoffed Rush Limbaugh of Palm Beach. Gov.
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To add Boogie Cousins, who when healthy was a top 15 N.B.A. player, seemed an exercise in preposterous excess.
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That the "save a thousand" quote was ever uttered by a formerly enslaved person feels preposterous on its face.
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Then they used 2 as a substitute for an "e" in their preposterous "Striv2 for GreatnEss" shirt for LeBron.
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Joanna's conspiracy is so vast and preposterous that it becomes nothing more than a grab-bag of plot twists.
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Hunter Biden's place on Burisma's board was untoward, even if it's preposterous for Trump to complain about nepotistic corruption.
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"The audience is smart enough to know that what they're seeing is a satire and it's preposterous," Blum added.
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Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw, a Democrat from suburban Fairfax County, called secession "preposterous," according to the Richmond Times.
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Can you recruit people who take the most preposterous lies of the right-wing news media as gospel truth?
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That price point may seem a little preposterous, but we're still in the very early days of foldable PCs.
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" Earlier on Friday, Wynn also released a statement saying, "the idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous.
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So this notion that the people we happened to have in Guantánamo couldn't be released has always been preposterous.
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Forget for the moment Trump's preposterous contradictory statements of millions of jobs, but we can't raise the minimum wage.
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Their vocabulary of broad stereotypes, paranoid fantasies and preposterous global-takeover schemes is the stuff comedy is made of.
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One painting in particular, "André Derain" from 1936, makes the claim especially preposterous, never perhaps more so than now.
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"The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous," Wynn told the Journal in response to the allegations.
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But it's preposterous to imagine a group of all women legislators making the decisions about what health care men can and cannot access — not only because it's sadly preposterous to imagine a group of all women legislators but because men, their health care and their needs are so regularly put on a pedestal.
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Mr Trump's bogus but repeated tale of an American general dipping bullets in pig's blood before executing Muslim captives; Mr Putin's absurd pretense over the independence of Russian courts: making others swallow or succumb to these lies, however preposterous (in fact, especially if they are preposterous), is itself a form of power.
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He's a big man with big, tenacious, preposterous dreams stuck in a life that feels too banal, empty, and small.
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But any talk of a championship, Finals appearance, or respectable playoff run sometime in the near future feels increasingly preposterous.
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For Diesu, who said activists take care to stay on the right side of the law, the situation seemed preposterous.
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For most Hamilton fans, the idea that anyone out there could even think of starting a #BoycottHamilton hashtag is preposterous.
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It's preposterous, but he mixes just enough heart into a buckwild character performance that it's never too over-the-top.
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As adults, however, the demands on that friendship are so brutal and preposterous that Anna's devotion is never remotely believable.
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" On Thursday, Trump said of the initial allegations, "The claims are preposterous, ludicrous, and defy truth, common sense and logic.
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That&aposs why he was running around with this preposterous fake guns, the pellet gun and the other fake gun.
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The company is still richer than God, but it's suffered a few setbacks recently as its preposterous growth has sputtered.
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" Just one day before speaking out himself, Simmons' rep, Tom Estey, told PEOPLE that the rumors are "untrue and preposterous.
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Wynn's response: "The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous," he said in written statement to the WSJ.
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"The idea I should have some regret for accurately quoting a major news figure in Ukraine is preposterous," he said.
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It would be preposterous, given the nature of their regime and how they look at the press and so forth.
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However, most of us watching the circus see him self-destructing, finally, under the weight of his own preposterous campaign.
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" It is, she added, "by turns brutal and sentimental, lovely and lurid, as serious as the grave and blissfully preposterous.
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Together they created the fairly preposterous impression that most historians of the Great Famine lay the blame with the Irish.
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But it's fun to drop in on them occasionally and see what sort of preposterous activities they are up to.
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Silicon Valley investors thought the idea of phone-free events was preposterous and almost laughed him out of the room.
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Even if he did want to help ISIS (a claim that, again, is preposterous), the treason allegation would be iffy.
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"This hypothesis always struck me as preposterous," Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont Securities, wrote in a research note.
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It's almost preposterous thinking how anyone decided at the time that they did that they were going to live there.
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My mom and Titi feigned outrage at his "preposterous" idea that they were trying to secretly, illegally flee the country.
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One of the delights of this knowingly preposterous story is the dialectic it constructs between the real and the fantastic.
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It is also a description of the race that Norwegians would consider so preposterous that it veers to the profane.
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The creator of the extension, a designer named Eric Bailey, eventually added other preposterous text-swapping constructions to his software.
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As a young New York Times reporter, I was present at the emergence of Mr. Laffer and his preposterous theory.
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The notion that he would hang himself in a prison where they remove even your shoelaces strikes me as preposterous.
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Nadal already has won a preposterous 11 French Open titles: "An unbelievable achievement," said Severin Lüthi, one of Federer's coaches.
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President Trump's preposterous "demand" is a loser's whine that the competition is unfair because his competitor is better at it.
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Cobb thought it was preposterous to believe that this could be done in the United States for a competitive price.
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It seems preposterous that fumbling bureaucrats could understand what we do, let alone presume to limit our freedom of action.
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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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Candidates had to show up for lengthy debates (even if their answers often ranged from the canned to the preposterous).
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The claim that second-grade detective slots in the bureau were being filled by friends of the chief is preposterous.
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No, what struck me as preposterous was that he had planned an apple-picking date with an all AFAB crew.
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No kindness goes unpunished in "John Henry," a thug-life thriller so frequently preposterous that it almost resembles a parody.
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That's one too many, a preposterous amount of girlishness under the same roof and surely torture for our "poor" father.
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The notion that crabs can teach us about human wealth distribution "may be a little preposterous," Dr. Borgerhoff Mulder added.
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Mr. Trump himself has described climate change as a "hoax" perpetrated by China, a preposterous claim backed by no evidence.
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Their plots are oneiric, preposterous; trying to authenticate their existence encourages self-doubt like no other sort of fiction does.
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"It is simply preposterous to claim that these attacks on civilians have anything to do with fighting terrorism," Haley said.
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In fact, this ad is so preposterous, it could actually help Ed Gillespie win the Virginia gubernatorial election next week.
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They have made their tent smaller and smaller, and allowed controversial and even preposterous policies to become mainstream Democratic doctrine.
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Theo Love's documentary "The Legend of Cocaine Island," now streaming on Netflix, chronicles the harebrained execution of a preposterous scheme.
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Instead of dragging them through preposterous legal proceedings, the government should commend the journalists for their indispensable role in promoting accountability.
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"To think I would risk my whole business on copyright[ed] books that we sold for $8 is preposterous," he said.
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Even if he did want to help al-Qaeda (a claim that, again, is preposterous), the treason allegation would be iffy.
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"Instead, they came up with the preposterous argument that sanctions relief is impossible prior to denuclearization," Ju told the Geneva forum.
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Chidambaram said the charges were designed to support a "preposterous allegation" against himself and other officials, but declined to comment further.
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Williamson is not even an outlier among her fellow candidates, many of whom have already endorsed the preposterous Green New Deal.
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Vindman previously denied being the source of leaks within the administration, calling the claim "preposterous" during a public hearing in November.
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"The idea that rural and urban America describe two economies, one thriving and the other failing, is preposterous," he tells me.
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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote recently that putting Clinton and Trump in the same league, lie-wise, is preposterous.
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But not in Preposterous, a hilariously absurd short from Florent Porta where the total opposite impossibly happens in completely random scenarios.
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Third, it is preposterous to accuse Mr. Obama of causing a "bitter struggle" by nominating someone who will not be confirmed.
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If you'd rather an electric German SUV with a preposterous interior, check out Mercedes-Benz's Vision Mercedes-Maybach Ultimate Luxury concept.
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I&aposve seen her make a lot of preposterous statements, but come on, I mean, does she support the border wall?
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He called parts of her story "preposterous," particularly her assertion that McCarthy forcibly kept her captive in her house for months.
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" Tesla described the idea that it would prevent a customer talking to the NHTSA "or any other government agency" as "preposterous.
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"It is absolutely preposterous," noted Joel Reynolds in March, western director and senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
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"I have taken note of the filing of this preposterous charge sheet & intend to contest it vigorously," he said on Twitter.
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It was clearly preposterous, making easily disproved, wild and salacious accusations that had not been verified and would never be verified.
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"The notion that somebody asked and polling question and creating that as a moral equivalence seems preposterous to me," he said.
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"Instead of dragging them through preposterous legal proceedings, the government should commend the journalists for their indispensable role in promoting accountability."
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Teddy and Carrie first meet in traffic, as he overhears a preposterous and profane conversation she is having on her cellphone.
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" He called the claims in her lawsuit "equally preposterous and unfortunately, the product of an unstable personality with a vivid imagination.
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At the same time, her rants never seem to attract the help she needs — just more people affirming her preposterous claims.
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I'm all for producers and the sometimes preposterous lengths they will go to in order to promote and protect their shows.
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" A columnist, Lew Freedman, responded at length: "Saying West's arrival means Wyoming is no longer worth visiting on vacation is preposterous.
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He gave a deranged but sentimental powerpoint presentation on how the project was a "preposterous odyssey" 25 years in the making.
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For them to come out with this bullshit list of 25 technical reforms, without addressing anything about political failure… It's preposterous.
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We're using Russia to help me win the great state of Iowa or anywhere else is the most preposterous, embarrassing thing.
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He has made proposals that are plainly preposterous, such as building a wall on the Mexican border, which Mexico would finance.
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"The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous," Wynn said in a written statement to the Wall Street Journal.
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This is ridiculous and it&aposs preposterous and not one person in the American media has been talking about this but me.
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Golden State's offense is all clockwork and counterweights and preposterous distances and angles that usually end in layups or open 25-footers.
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Game's team filed docs calling it "Mularky!" and preposterous ... claiming it's all a ploy to shake down the rapper for $10 million.
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The ruling, which disqualified three opposition lawmakers, was a preposterous attempt to prevent Parliament from making sweeping reforms the country desperately needs.
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" Then, Skarsgård suggested the most preposterous alternate explanation possible, that he might've been on-set to "help Meryl Streep with her acting.
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It's a preposterous claim given the current limitations of medical science, and a complete misreading of how the fledgling cryonics industry works.
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We intend to take all legal steps necessary to protect our good name and reputation against these patently false and preposterous claims.
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Hawley's belief that government forcing websites to offer political counterarguments to every opinion is somehow emblematic of free speech is bafflingly preposterous.
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You can see if you feel that they are spending your tax dollars on studying you and coming up with preposterous conclusions.
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The entire notion of debating which race/civilization/ "sub group" contributed most or is best is as odious as it is preposterous.
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"To say he has no idea is absolutely preposterous and really an insult to the intelligence of the American people," Blumenthal said.
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Quite frankly, it must because these events are, pardon my language, f------ preposterous for a country of our development, size, and wealth.
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"It's preposterous that they are all on one ballot," she said, suggesting that California Today do a series that analyzes each proposition.
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Over and over during this election, we've witnessed moments — either in person or through the filter of various screens — that seemed preposterous.
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His worst-reviewed film is the fantasy action film, "Gods of Egypt," which one critic described as "unprecedentedly violent and incomparably preposterous."
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Rep. Devin Nunes has denounced "fake news" and "preposterous reporting" as part of a vicious broadside against journalism in the impeachment hearings.
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More than once I have heard Iranian imams, with preposterous certainty, equate flimsy women's attire in the West with decadence and prostitution.
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Hawaii said in its court filing it was "preposterous" not to consider a formal link with a resettlement agency a qualifying relationship.
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The notion that Hillary Clinton would be indicted based on what the FBI found in her handling of emails was always preposterous.
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Birshtein's lawyer told the FT that it would be "preposterous" and "patently false" to say that the businessman was a KGB "operative".
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The prosecutors not only said the claim was "preposterous," but also quoted Judge Cogan's words from the second day of the trial.
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It's like the nursery rhyme about the old lady who swallowed a fly, each new and preposterous step dictated by the last.
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Yet the idea behind the treatment seems almost preposterous: Take bone marrow stem cells from a boy with the ALD gene mutation.
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Many Harry Potter fans and Twitter users familiar with the decade-old controversy surrounding the series found the 2019 ban quite preposterous.
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Judge Kavanaugh's defenders have already launched a fusillade of victim-blaming counterattacks, from the predictable to the preposterous: She's making it up.
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"The notion that there would be no supply-side response from U.S. shale to a strong price signal is preposterous," Lafakis said.
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Then finally read aloud to Congress a recreated, fabricated, and preposterous version of the phone call between POTUS and the Ukrainian President.
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Smartphones with 16GB of RAM exist already; Samsung's own Galaxy S20 Ultra can be had with this preposterous amount of fast memory.
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" The Times also gladly borrowed the preposterous and offensive comparison other outlets had made to Kim Yo-Jong as "North Korea's Ivanka.
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" The first article of impeachment is "completely disingenuous, meritless, and baseless invention of your imagination," while the second is "preposterous and dangerous.
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"The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous," he said in a statement that the company previously sent to CNN.
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Mr. Zuckerberg's preposterous defense of Facebook's failure in the 2016 presidential campaign is a reminder of a structural asymmetry in American politics.
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It may seem preposterous to call a four-hour film "restrained," but that's what Leaving Neverland is: a work of extraordinary restraint.
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Going into the 5th, two judges had the bout even, and the other with Wilder ahead, to which I find a bit preposterous.
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" He claimed that the dead man was Kim Chol, a citizen of North Korea, and that requests for a DNA sample were "preposterous.
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It's just another preposterous part of living in 2019 — one that's quite telling about how quickly we accept new absurdities as our reality.
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"There's a line between 'aspirational' and 'preposterous' and Elon is walking on it with that time frame," space policy Marcia Smith of SpacePolicyOnline.
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By the time you have finished outlining the narrative and its ironies, you are told the idea is preposterous and simply not believable.
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Most importantly, instead of the raised funds going to a preposterous border wall, they will go help those impacted by immigration policy failings.
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" I personally thought the film would be a milquetoast version of Gone Girl, while The New York Times called it a "preposterous movie.
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"To suggest that weakening Americans' right to hold and bear arms will somehow ameliorate or protect us from terrorism is preposterous," Franks said.
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BUT TO THINK THAT M&A IS DEAD OR NOT THE RIGHT WAY IN PART TO BUILD A COMPANY IS PREPOSTEROUS, AS WELL.
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The entrepreneur and writer has built a brand for himself by being unconventional and by trying to normalize what many people deem preposterous.
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"Initially it was like 100 kids that would show up, and we were all drunk, and we thought everything was preposterous," he said.
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It is preposterous that anyone but the British courts should make decisions about British law, especially when it affects the safety of Britons.
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Haim-Aharon's predicament threatens to become preposterous rather than haunting, but there is no denying the film's uncanny power or its visual discipline.
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But even so, the two showmen required only a preposterous two hours five minutes of playing time to complete a five-set match.
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Banks told me that insinuations that his wife, who helps to manage their family properties, had any connection with Russian espionage were preposterous.
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Hawaii said in its court filing that it was "preposterous" to not consider a formal link with a resettlement agency a qualifying relationship.
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"To support something as preposterous as a Mario variety blog with real, actual money, you have to get some value back," he said.
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As he did when Anita Hill accused him in 1991 of sexual harassment, Justice Thomas flatly denied the new accusations, calling them preposterous.
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The Long View To Homer, as to the rest of the ancient world, what became the Christian idea of personal resurrection was preposterous.
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But the fact that he stood to gain any money at all exposes the preposterous way that corporate America has treated sexual harassment.
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Rather than backtrack — acknowledging that the idea that slavery was a choice is preposterous — he became even more strident in defending the indefensible.
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While I am generally fond of preposterous people, Parreno's fatuous floating fish-shaped balloons seemed literally FedExed in, empty of any genuine substance.
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" One reviewer for Stand News, a local online publication, called it the sort of "preposterous dream that could only appear in Hong Kong.
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Watch how Helen reacts as the preposterous headdress worn by Sierra's "guru" looms into frame as the two younger women start making out.
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Mr. Rees-Mogg is a media-savvy High Tory in the self-consciously preposterous, overprivileged Boris Johnson mode, only without the boyish incorrigibility.
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The setup for this scene — Tulip's preposterous, hyperbolic blood-and-brains reactions to a simple association test — is an absurdist sketch comedy gag.
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There is the further matter that the premise that fossil-fuel producers somehow "know" what the future policy responses might be is preposterous.
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And some experienced teachers said it was preposterous to think that algorithms could be better than skilled teachers at adapting to students' abilities.
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It imagines an America that in 1977, during the early Carter years, must have seemed like preposterous parody but today appears merely descriptive.
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The more an acquittal hinges on preposterous limits on disclosure of information and on preventing witness testimony, the less valid it will seem.
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"China's claim to jurisdiction over waters within Indonesia's exclusive economic zone on the basis of the nine-dash line is preposterous," he said.
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When speaking freely, some offer theories, a few darkly sensationalistic and sinister; a few theorists seem reasonable, but others come across as preposterous.
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Her predictions veer from the preposterous (crops will remain untended while farmers film their cows) to the clichéd (a celebrity will be president).
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Any number that sought punitive recourse against a billionaire is going to look preposterous, and they had to outline something for the jury.
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To Glenda, who has been helping people fly between New York and the Caribbean for years, their idea seems avant garde — preposterous, even.
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We recognize our political mishaps, but the leap from public deliberation to detentions and fallacious designations is preposterous, shortsighted and an alarming precedent.
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A preposterous idea, of course, but that happens in baseball every time there is a pitching change, and often when there is not.
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If this sounds preposterous, what would you say if I told you the DNC is already charging presidential candidates to use DNC resources?
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All of the provisions in HB 4260 mirror provisions that currently burden women in Texas, and yet they seem preposterous when applied to men.
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Now I know this sounds preposterous, but I don't think it's any more so than the internet or human flight might have once seemed.
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I don't know about you, but that sounds like a preposterous amount of fun, and it's making me sad I'm not in school anymore.
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The new bill would take that preposterous rationale one step further and criminalize an act as harmless and natural as holding hands in public.
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In 19923, I received a fellowship that came with a preposterous gift: an empty year, mine to fill with whatever I consider my work.
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Dos Santos says that some customers like to bring their own ideas for preposterous pizza toppings, suggesting everything from guitars to Michael Jackson LPs.
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"It just looked so preposterous I had to have it," Janet Carlson, a director of an advertising firm, told the LA Times in 1976.
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Addressing reporters before Trump tweeted about the sentence, Fidell said Trump had already caused one of the "most preposterous" legal situations in American history.
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The U.S. is poorly defending that simple fact against preposterous claims that it is out to destroy the multilateral trading system and free trade.
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" Conway insists "there is absolutely not one shred of evidence linking him to the Gilgo beach case" and said "to think otherwise is preposterous.
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The actual average annual change was less than 4 percent, however, and consensus predictions were inaccurate in every single year, sometimes by preposterous margins.
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"Quite simply, the Bureau's claim it couldn't locate any documents on Ailes dated more recently than 1990 is preposterous on its face," he said.
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It sounds preposterous (and, let's be real, it kind of is), but a new company called Skin Motion — and its promotional videos — say otherwise.
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He said the decision to edit the transcript was "preposterous" and that everyone knew Mateen was a radical Islamic extremist inspired by Islamic State.
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Really, until we see the full study we can't properly analyze the device, but for now, its claims don't seem to be so preposterous.
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James Rogers, the USCCB's chief spokesman, called Bannon's comments "preposterous" and accused the conservative agitator of presenting a false choice between compassion and security.
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He is averaging more than 30 points a game while making 51 percent of his shots, including a preposterous 46 percent of three-pointers.
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The backlash against those classic TV series' endings was swift and merciless (many thought "Seinfeld's" was too preposterous, that of "The Sopranos" too baffling).
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But the former Olympic and world heavyweight titleholder Lennox Lewis said it would be "preposterous" to let professionals into the same ring as amateurs.
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"It's completely preposterous and silly and at the same time — and this was very important, it's what I was hoping for — it's actually moving."
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" The company has said allegations that it secretly developed a definitive understanding of climate change before the rest of the world's scientists are "preposterous.
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It begins: The notion that one man can lay claim to all the extraterrestrial bodies in our little corner of the galaxy sounds preposterous.
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And this idea that somehow he was just running to raise his profile for some future venture, at least in my experience, is preposterous.
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"The building is really at this preposterous and fantastical scale," director at Ball State's IDIA Lab John Fillwalk told me in a phone interview.
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Of all the techniques a fighter could choose to attempt as an intercepting counter, the axe kick has to be among the most preposterous.
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" In retrospect, Sam's Town is my favorite Killers album because it's rabid, preposterous in its sequencing and contains their best song, "Read My Mind.
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"It was preposterous working for that little when I was handling vases as old as the period written about in Homer's Odyssey," he said.
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But when you have the most powerful politician in the world calling for 45 percent tariffs against other countries, Xi doesn't look so preposterous.
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With only one week left in a preposterous N.F.L. regular season, the only thing that makes sense is that not much makes sense anymore.
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As an investor, the idea of a fund generating 66% annualized returns (before fees) over a 30-year period seems nothing short of preposterous.
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He claimed the allegation was "categorically not true" and waved off elements of the woman's story as "preposterous," according to a statement to Politico.
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Here's some context from Marshall Cohen on how preposterous Rudy's tweet is: The Supreme Court doesn't just "step in" when there is a dispute.
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I know what you're thinking: A lighting element that exists purely to show the shape of my grille at night sounds preposterous and idiotic.
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We all had our guesses, and the innumerable theories ranged from probable to downright preposterous — but no one saw that season 8 finale coming.
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"The thought that ANYONE can be precise about the value of a private company to the second decimal place is preposterous," Mr. Gurley continued.
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James said in a statement that Trump's filing makes "preposterous arguments" and that New York is still confident that the TRUST Act is constitutional.
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All dating shows are contrived, but the contrivances on "Dating Around" are not preposterous, designed to shock or entertain — in fact, they're depressingly familiar.
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In the third season of the show, following a string of preposterous murders and schemes, the Underwoods finally make it to the White House.
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" Wynn denied the allegations in a written statement to the Journal, saying that "[t]he idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous.
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Far from Home shows that while Marvel wants to respect its own increasingly preposterous backstory, it doesn't intend to box its franchise in with it.
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Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros on Saturday called for bilateral ties to be downgraded and said China's denial was "preposterous" and the story made no sense.
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I've watched a lot of college basketball, and I've never seen a player so prone to preposterous, NBA Jam-style he's-on-fire shooting stretches.
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Many people thought the 1999 strategic alliance between French automaker Renault and Japanese company Nissan, a deal he engineered, was preposterous and doomed to fail.
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Is it so preposterous that other denominations may also be associated with different political preferences too, which may not map neatly onto right-left lines?
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Now, thanks to one intrepid YouTuber, Doom modders have achieved another, even more preposterous, level of success: They wired a toy trumpet to play Doom.
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He said it did seem preposterous that such a story would be circulated when a presidential candidate during the campaign travels with scores of newspapermen.
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Since 20 candidates is a preposterous number of candidates to make sense of, we made a guide for the questions and moments to look for.
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All that's left is an exchange — Nacho hands over the baseball cards, Wormald hands over that preposterous Hummer, which is headed to the chop shop.
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Wynn told the newspaper in a written statement that it was "preposterous" he "ever would assault any woman," but did not respond to all questions.
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Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros on Saturday called for bilateral ties to be downgraded and said China's denial was "preposterous" and the story made no sense.
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Wynn has denied the accusations published by the Wall Street Journal that he routinely subjected women who worked for him to unwanted advances as "preposterous".
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On the other hand, my desktop stands well over two feet tall, and the idea that I'm taking that anywhere outside my house is preposterous.
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" Nunes seemed to be lending credence to Trump's preposterous accusation on Twitter from earlier that month that Obama had his " 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower.
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While the new French president is casually meeting with Putin planning a new, closer relationship, we have been driven to a preposterous Cold War stance.
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In the wake of this week's launch of the preposterous Solarin phone, I got to thinking about the strained relationship between luxury and personal electronics.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday it was preposterous that Trump's eldest son was under attack for meeting the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.
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Crazy Rich Asians does not offer any kind of deeper commentary on Singaporean colonialism, or address the darker history of the Young family's preposterous wealth.
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Uneven casting, patchy orchestral playing and a preposterous plot ultimately faded into irrelevance next to the glittering performance of Angela Meade in the title role.
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Tesla said it was "preposterous" to suggest that it was trying to prevent owners from reporting safety problems to N.H.T.S.A. or any other government agency.
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"This allegation is categorically not true and the idea that I would claim this as my right as an entertainer is preposterous," the senator said.
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Trump is too preposterous to be a Lear figure, but his rants may resonate with a Lear-like nerve in those weary of the world.
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Everything is supersized and preposterous, but Mr. Chu, with two films in the "Step Up" franchise under his belt, is undaunted by crowds and confusion.
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At least for the duration of "Sorry to Bother You," capitalism feels evil but also tawdry and preposterous, and labor solidarity seems sexy and exuberant.
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Even if he or whoever's tweeting for him says something preposterous, that's still coming from the president or the president-elect, you can't ignore it.
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For a stadium that includes renderings of people rollerblading alongside a moat in which other people are surfing, this particular image is the most preposterous.
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TIM BREWER, LOS ANGELES To the Editor: Some suggest that President Trump is diverting us from bad economic news by his preposterous claim of treason.
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"Just to decide this, to eradicate their identity and history and culture and rename them at will, is not only preposterous, its unconscionable," Ashrawi said.
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"For Speaker Ryan to hide behind states' rights to defend the symbols of the Confederacy is as shameful as it is preposterous," Mr. Hammill said.
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After the announcement of the Nobel prize, Vlora Citaku, the Kosovan ambassador to the United States, described it as "scandalous…preposterous and a shameful decision".
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"When controversies like this come up, it's worth standing back and looking at all of pop culture, which is filled with preposterous misrepresentations," he said.
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"The idea that the Democrats were somehow behind this caravan coming from Honduras of these women and children is preposterous," Wallace said on the program.
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The series presents Avery's case as a one-off—a preposterous crusade by a grudge-bearing county sheriff's department to discredit and imprison a nemesis.
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As for who may have ordered the presumed hit, countless books — ranging from the plausible to the preposterous — have been published about Hoffa's iconoclastic life.
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The ceremony was scheduled for halftime of Michigan State's game against Duke, and Green had requested a preposterous number of tickets for family and friends.
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If these accounts have a familiar ring, it's because this is the same preposterous reporting the media offered for three years on the Russia hoax.
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" Earlier in the profile, Madsen calls BloodRayne — Boll's 2005 film based on the vampire-focused action game series — an "abomination" and "a horrifying and preposterous movie.
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Last year, it seemed preposterous that Razer made a gaming phone without flashy colored lights, but now it's here, and it's not purely just for show.
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It may seem preposterous to some that a company that is losing money and has a stock with no voting rights could be worth $40 billion.
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The authorities don't use the word Rohingya and claim that these are just illegal immigrants from Bangladesh (this is preposterous; historical documents refer to the Rohingya).
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But the idea that voters were moved by fake stories about the pope rather than all-too-real ones about email servers is a preposterous evasion.
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Mr Alvarez stages regular preposterous action set-pieces which demonstrate that Salander has both the physical capabilities of Jason Bourne and the genius of Sherlock Holmes.
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We run everything… But we don't act like it… We're still acting as if we're in trouble and we have to defend ourselves, which is preposterous.
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Page said the committee's request for detailed information about his recent contacts with Russians is "preposterous" and "illogical," and is " based on "lies from corrupt politicians.
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Yes, governing for over 300 million Americans is messy, and it is preposterous to believe that our solons will ever agree on a unanimous way forward.
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Towanda Braxton says stories that her sister Toni has had work done on her face are preposterous ... because she has a disease that prohibits such procedures.
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Trump's preposterous honesty about things like his greed and his clumsy/folksy pattern of speech combine to create a sense of familiarity and even common cause.
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That's what Panasonic is promising with this remote camera that keeps on recording even when the wind is blowing at preposterous speeds up to 134 MPH.
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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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"This allegation is categorically not true and the idea that I would claim this as my right as an entertainer is preposterous," the Minnesota senator said.
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" He also denied the country's involvement in the 28500 Sony hack and last year's global WannaCry ransomware attack, calling the charges "vicious slander" and "preposterous falsehoods.
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Simultaneously preposterous and dull, "Dear Dictator" is the kind of movie where music and wardrobe choices — like the mean girls' stridently visible underwear — substitute for character.
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The other likely inspiration was Elmslie, who was working on a collection of preposterous fictions that would be published under the title The Orchid Stories (1973).
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So the idea that any woman would be able to get an abortion within two weeks of fertilization — the cutoff under the Alabama bill — is preposterous.
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"We demand the British side earnestly adopt measures to protect our reporter's rights and ensure such a preposterous event will not occur again," the network said.
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" He then veered into the preposterous, explaining that the Daniels payout was too insignificant to bear mentioning: "Like, I take care of this with my clients.
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"For Speaker Ryan to hide behind states' rights to defend the symbols of the Confederacy is as shameful as it is preposterous," Hammill said by email.
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Atonal music grinds while unsmiling waiters wearing dark-colored sacks deliver preposterous dishes, giving no hint that they understand the absurdity of the setting and situation.
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That preposterous notion would be the staple of satire were it not being proposed as a matter of policy by the leader of the free world.
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"The idea that conservative ideas are dumb is so preposterous that you have to live in an echo chamber to think of it," Sunstein told me.
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Over big-bubble bass and sci-fi synths, the most preposterous part of "Tokyo" is the fact that Thundercat slid the word "reckless" into the chorus.
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They were entirely in favor of research on solutions, but the notion that basic climate monitoring and analysis could be scaled back struck them as preposterous.
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News is fake unless it comes from sources that espouse our worldview, in which case even the most preposterous conspiracy theory is seen as ironclad truth.
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"Howie paraphrased a vague, preposterous-sounding quote to me that I told him sounded ridiculous and not the kind of thing I'd say," Martin told POLITICO.
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You can't help it: It's impossible to not notice LG's preposterous array of 112 TVs that covers the walls and ceiling just outside its hangar-sized booth.
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"The deceased has gone, the feigned sorrow is really preposterous," the state-backed Global Times tabloid said in a social media post that appeared to mock mourners.
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Caption: However, it wasn't so long ago that all that power presented an unruly mess of cables—a "preposterous umbilical cord," as engineer Nirav Patel describes it.
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The Supreme Court recently rejected a preposterous claim that Muslim prisoners could not be permitted to grow half-inch beards because they could hide weapons in them.
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Which is why a presidential election — ostensibly a preposterous narrative backdrop for any rom-com — is such a perfect one for a revisionist take on the genre.
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Wynn told the newspaper in a written statement that it was "preposterous" he "ever would assault any woman," but he didn't respond to all the newspaper's questions.
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The LIGO collaboration ultimately responded via physicist Sean Carroll's popular blog, Preposterous Universe, in a guest post by postdoctoral physicist Ian Harry, which you can read here.
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South Korea President Park Geun-hye said the North showed no sign of willingness to change but only made "preposterous claims about being a nuclear weapons state".
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I think the notion, in 2018 or 2019, of telling the consumer where ... Telling an 18-year-old where he should see what you made is preposterous.
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But because dinosaurs were very much confined to Earth—a limitation that was central to their doom—it would seem preposterous to imagine them as spacefaring creatures.
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This made for a rousing, if often frustrating, presidential election and primary season, where separating the quality social media wheat from the preposterous chaff became almost impossible.
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Media friendly to the ruling CPP claim that the opposition was keenest to have Mr Ley out of the way, a suggestion his friends say is preposterous.
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" Lawyer: Trump's remarks 'preposterous' Following the sentencing, President Donald Trump tweeted that the decision was a "complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military.
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If the media did not create a firestorm every time Donald Trump makes a preposterous statement, he might not be sitting in the Oval Office right now.
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When it comes to historical mirrored worlds, an author's success can be measured by the ability to create a story that, despite being preposterous, feels altogether real.
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The screenplay, by Bill Dubuque, is so determined to hide its cards that when the big reveal finally arrives, it feels as underwhelming as it is preposterous.
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It's also a shame that "House of Cards" continues to do its usual awkward dance between being an intentionally preposterous soap opera and a highbrow prestige drama.
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It may seem preposterous to anticipate how an athlete will grow at age 13—maybe it's too early to tell what kind of athlete they will be.
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LeBron needs to be processed through an entirely objective lens, void of emotional/personal opinions that belittle how thoroughly he exceeds preposterous expectations on a daily basis.
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"The Girl on a Train," which our critic called "a preposterous movie but not an unenjoyable one," appears to be way ahead in the box office race.
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On Tuesday night, Mr. Pence resorted at times to repeating some of Mr. Trump's own thin claims, including his preposterous justification for not releasing his tax returns.
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Exxon spokesman Scott Silvestri called the study "inaccurate and preposterous" and said the researchers' goal was to attack the company's reputation at the expense of its shareholders.
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In a sentence, together with all kinds of other words, we wouldn't notice, but unencumbered, naked and accorded a line all to itself, the utterance becomes preposterous.
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The belief that this enormous, existential problem could have been fixed if all of us had just tweaked our consumptive habits is not only preposterous; it's dangerous.
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Evidently, caffeine pill use was an issue of major concern in the the early 90s, because The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air had its own preposterous storyline.
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The idea of actually downloading and playing the copycat app, "The Q," is preposterous, even though its relatively minuscule traffic increases players' chances of winning bigger sums.
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Directed by the cinematographer Christopher Doyle, "Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled, Preoccupied, Preposterous" is drawn from the real voices of contemporary Hong Kong residents, a title card says.
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" A spokesman for Exxon Mobil, Scott Silvestri, dismissed the new study as part of a long activist campaign against the company, calling the paper "inaccurate and preposterous.
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Perhaps it should come as no surprise that a president who described the Constitution as "like a foreign language" would cling to such a legally preposterous claim.
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At once solemn and preposterous, sinister and sentimental, efficient and overwrought, "Split" represents something of a return to form for its writer and director, M. Night Shyamalan.
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Unpacking it all is a lot of fun if you can afford it; preposterous expense is one reality of the old restaurant that the new tenants preserved.
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It didn't feel real; I've had an email account since I was in middle school, but the concept of "running low" on storage space seemed utterly preposterous.
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Just when you think you've cracked the film's circumscribed logic, it opens up and goes wild in ways at once too wondrous and too preposterous to spoil.
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In an op-ed in The Washington Post, Scarborough accuses GOP lawmakers of spreading "preposterous narratives" about the FBI, the Justice Department and Mueller's special counsel office.
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In the tank, no one is dismissed — the sharks start every segment with furrowed brows, ready to take notes and hear out pitches, no matter how preposterous.
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What elevates Elmslie's preposterous aggregations into another realm is their oracular significance: If only one had been born Swiss, the daughter of a well-to-do grocer.
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North Korea Thursday dismissed a recent UN report accusing Pyongyang of supplying Syria with materials for chemical weapons, calling it a "preposterous fabrication" cooked up by Washington.
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Each element of his line was preposterous: 55 points, 17 of 28 from the field, 5 of 8 from three, 16 of 17 from the free-throw stripe.
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Nevertheless, Gallagher says it is "preposterous" that he has never had a number one U.S. album nor been Grammy nominated, despite the huge success of Oasis in Britain.
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Turkish officials claim he was murdered, and that his body was removed, but the Saudis call such allegations preposterous propaganda, and that Khashoggi left unharmed shortly after arriving.
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You can get completely wrapped up in it, but if you take some steps back and see it in a larger context, these fraught times are absolutely preposterous.
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In the middle of a rant today about the Electoral College, Trump tweeted a preposterous claim: that millions of people voted illegally in the election he just won.
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From such a perspective, the whole idea that government should be in the business of judging between eligible and ineligible voters is as preposterous as it is cumbersome.
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Republicans in Congress universally accepted this preposterous arrangement as good enough for them, and set the stage for abusive legalism to become an ongoing theme of Trump's presidency.
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But Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee Cortes warned jurors not to accept the "preposterous" claim that Baroni and former Christie deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly were unknowing pawns.
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Steph Curry regularly lights up the internet with preposterous basketball deeds, so at first glance this ultra-sweet behind-the-back pass seems like more of the same.
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In the lawsuit, Breja says the claim was "preposterous," and that he had accurately represented his former position as a chief financial officer of a division at Uber.
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That the loss of parking spaces, though seemingly preposterous in the age of CitiBike, Uber, car sharing and global warming, can be the cause remains a perplexing reality.
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The following April, Judge Leo Glasser, a federal judge in the Eastern District, issued a ruling in which he called the claims "preposterous" and threw the lawsuit out.
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And while Trump has clearly not gotten over the fact that he lost the popular vote, any idea that he would want to court urban voters is preposterous.
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That's preposterous, considering that the boat to Liberty Island also stops at Ellis Island, which costs nothing extra and (in my opinion, not his) is far more interesting.
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It is preposterous to say that African-Americans collectively are so unstable that they can not hear offensive words without losing their moral sense of right and wrong.
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Since all I want for Christmas is a preposterous quantity of high-quality fake blood, I'll give it an 11/10 (knowing I won't be ranking the rest).
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" Franken issued a statement saying her accusation was "categorically not true," and that "the idea that I would claim this as my right as an entertainer is preposterous.
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Why were we forced to see him awarded a preposterous two additional Gold Gloves in his dotage when his defense was scarcely better than mediocre in his prime?
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The ministry said it is "not correct" that cow vigilantism has risen on Modi's watch and "preposterous" to conclude that Hindus are organizing to confiscate and redistribute cattle.
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It's preposterous that there is no requirement to include a warning, and that the store is not required, at a minimum, to alert the purchaser of the ingredient.
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He wrote a lengthy and impassioned letter to Wikipedia, for example, challenging the online encyclopedia's preposterous contention that he was not a credible witness to his own life.
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The first episode of Netflix's Wu Assassins opens with a kinetic, preposterous, thoroughly enjoyable Hong Kong cinema throwback fight scene set in a series of halls and stairwells.
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In 1997, a federal judge in Manhattan banished Klayman after finding the attorney conducted "abusive and obnoxious" questioning, gratuitously invoked the judge's Chinese origins and pursued "preposterous" arguments.
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It would have sounded preposterous, but it looked so very logical on Sunday, when Nadal once again had an answer for everything his latest worthy opponent could ask.
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"The preposterous charges that have been put forward further exemplify the increasing desperation of Maduro and his corrupt associates," said State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus in a statement.
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"The fact that the kid can graduate themselves is just preposterous," said Jesse Weinberger, an internet safety speaker who gives presentations to parents, schools and law enforcement officials.
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Exxon spokesman Scott Silvestri said the researchers' study was "inaccurate and preposterous" and that their goal was to attack the company's reputation at the expense of its shareholders.
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"There is a long history of US bullying at the UN, but this is a preposterous example -- the purely internal affairs of a nation," Khoshroo told the council.
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But each year, they get refined with new features, sometimes preposterous; a new Acer pet camera, for example, lets a group of eight people play with a pet.
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"To think a life was lost in connection with this completely preposterous robbery makes it all the more tragic," Ramos reportedly said before convicting the 22-year-old.
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This is, of course, very much a political document, full of bluster and preposterous cuts that Mr. Trump must know that Congress, including many Republicans, will not accept.
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On the other hand, if Bloomberg's ad blitz strategy works and he starts polling well, it could be preposterous not to allow a major candidate on the stage.
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I wonder if Ahmari has any inkling of how preposterous it looks, from outside his right-wing bubble, for Trump apologists to posture as defenders of family life.
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Only in the EPL would a coach fired for driving champions into the ground be hired to replace the manager of a historic team in fifth place. Preposterous.
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The ants stretched their jaws open a seemingly preposterous 280 degrees, and then, when puffed with a bit of air, snapped their toothy pincers closed with a robotic instantaneousness.
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And yet the crew of the Covenant acts like it's preposterous that they're being shunted off to some barely livable planet when there is, impossibly, a better one nearby.
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Is it possible that current and former members of the NBA have mutually agreed to troll the planet — which is provably spherical in shape — with preposterous flat-Earth theories?
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It looks preposterous, but you have to treat it seriously and create an atmosphere on set as if you're at the theatre, while there's all this anarchy going on.
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For Matt Bennett of Third Way, a centre-left think-tank, chastened Republicans could revert to being "partisan but not preposterous" after Trumpism breaks its hold over the party.
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Sixteen dollars for a glorified platform is preposterous when you can get all of the information in the book—most of which means next to nothing—for free online.
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Capricorn season coincides with Christmas and the start of winter, when people put a preposterous amount of work into creating artificial cheer during the darkest time of the year.
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But do I use this phone to listen to podcasts, play Sudoku, check email, send Telegram messages, call Uber rides, check Twitter, and take sick photos of preposterous cars?
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It is absurd in its inception and unjust in its application—a government racket based on a preposterous premise that effectively legalizes robbery and violates due process of law.
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Russian state media produced what it said were satellite photos showing a Ukrainian fighter jet shooting down the plane, but the US State Department said the idea was "preposterous."
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In light of these facts, it's preposterous to suggest that a company as committed to safety as Tesla would allow untested or unsafe batteries to go in our vehicles.
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The notion was preposterous, simultaneously flattering (you got a future, kid!) and insulting (but you're bupkis now), and notably left out any consideration of my feelings on the matter.
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It is plainly preposterous to hold that the Framers, in all their wisdom, wanted to deprive the government of a means to put an end to this widespread destruction.
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The execution was as delightful as the notion was preposterous: a comprehensive survey of Baroque music by a hardy band of four (or slightly more) in four hourlong concerts.
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Aglit Italy, which opened its NoHo storefront in May, specializes in luxury laces, a concept so surface-level preposterous it seems like material for a Funny or Die sketch.
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This was disrupted in the 1960s by the preposterous concern "Is this book of relevance to me?" which represented a tremendous assault on the literary, a tremendous group narcissism.
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What's more, an unidentified officer absentmindedly shared erroneous information with on-site reporters, mentioning that "it seemed ritualistic," which unleashed a torrent of preposterous headlines in the following days.
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The Greek government's capitulation to the creditors even involved a preposterous obligation that all Greek companies should pay, immediately and in full, their estimated tax for the next year.
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On his way into the tunnel, Markieff Morris spotted Stephen A. Smith, and delivered him an ebullient slap upside the backside, to the erogenous bemusement of Mr. Preposterous himself.
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The sort of plan someone who has no background in a topic comes up with at a pub, before someone tells them it's preposterous, dangerous, or just won't work.
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There was no discussion of this back then, and to assume certain elements of the law were thought of back then with respect to this would be completely preposterous.
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Even ignoring the preposterous claim, it is good that Trump now has an excuse to bend under the pressure and allow authorities to work at preventing a new attack.
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The notion of whites invading Harlem and attempting to burn down churches, which they did in the old days, is preposterous and never more so than after the war.
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Chan, a bespectacled 28-year-old interior decorator, says that his ideology springs from China's broken promises toward Hong Kong and that claims he might destabilize China are preposterous.
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For that reason, when Brady put together his historic 2007 season, it seemed less preposterous—the stats finally confirmed the greatness everyone assumed must be resting beneath the surface.
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President Trump has been very busy signing executive orders that would threaten undocumented immigrants, our healthcare system, and the environment, plus directing federal money to build a preposterous wall.
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Preposterous. When I called Jimoh Ovbiagele, Ross's chief technology officer, to ask him about the name, he said he expected that some people would react the way I did.
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If you think that would mean slipping a hazmat suit over your bikini, bear with us; putting a beach on Manhattan Island isn't as preposterous as you might think.
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Buffalo's offense is too conservative to justify a point spread of more than two touchdowns, but the thought of Buffalo losing this game at home is a bit preposterous.
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Despite Justice Stevens' preposterous assertion that the Second Amendment is the "only legal rule" protecting gun sellers, 44 states include a right to bear arms in their state constitutions.
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That is the kind of preposterous sentence that a critic sometimes finds herself writing from the Cannes Film Festival, where Mr. Pattison's new movie, "Good Time," is in competition.
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" Added Schoenfeld, "His preposterous pronouncements on issue after issue not only make him a menace to global stability--economic and military--but also an enemy of our own Constitution.
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After a preposterous week that saw three major orchestras converge on New York — eight concerts; 22,000 seats; nearly 13 hours of music — the Boston Symphony had the final note.
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Of course, there is only one place where the candidates can get this much money to pay for their preposterous policies, and that is the money in your wallet.
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In lieu of filing a malpractice claim, Martin has chosen a more archaic — and, in the film's modern setting, a far scarier and more preposterous — form of score settling.
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Trump's lawyer, John Dowd, has been busy clearing out more brush, making the preposterous claim that the president cannot obstruct justice because he's the nation's chief law enforcement officer.
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But if you don't buy that senior White House staff would falsify a narrative about a terrorist for a small electoral advantage, these questions look like a preposterous witch hunt.
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Yet even the director, J.J. Abrams, called it "preposterous and wrong" that Rey's action figure was missing in action from some game and toy tie-ins — a traditionally male realm.
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I wondered if people would see me standing friendless in the crowd and think I was some kind of outlier — a thought that I now freely admit was completely preposterous.
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Vodafone India and Idea did not immediately respond to CNBC requests seeking a comment Idea Cellular told CNBC-TV18 the news was "baseless and absolutely false" as well as "preposterous".
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A Freedom of Information request to the police brought the preposterous answer that it would take them 10,692 hours to look through six months of files for the missing children.
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The billionaire has denied the accusations published by the Wall Street Journal as "preposterous" and said they were instigated by his ex-wife to seek advantage in their divorce lawsuit.
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When the chairman had the audacity to challenge the takeover in court, he found himself the subject of massive indictment alleging preposterous organized crime offenses that are absolutely without foundation.
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Over the next seven years, Giffen fought back with a novel defense: he made the preposterous claim that, while doing business in Kazakhstan, he was effectively working for the CIA.
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People pay when they spend their time, money, and energy worrying about preposterous things because a company dressed up nonsense ideas to make them look reasonable out of disingenuous concern.
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Sure, it sounds silly, but it would be preposterous to assume that Saban didn't get any votes—he reportedly received "dozens" of votes for president of the U.S. in 2012.
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They'll be Comeytose by 11am....," to the preposterous, like Lily Allen's conspiracy theory: "What if the Russians killed all the famouses that died in 2016 to distract us from hacks.
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His eye-rolling, pantomiming performance sometimes grew exhausting, but vocally, he remained focused and resonant in every angle and turn of the sometimes preposterous coloratura passages Rossini assigned to him.
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Down at the harbor, huge mock galleons, capable of carrying more than 100 tourists on day cruises, are moored in a row, looking all the more preposterous for their pointlessness.
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Well, I can't speak for Leslie Jones—maybe she's really big into the Tour de France—but she's certainly good at calling out the cycling fans on their preposterous bullshit.
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Such figures have been dismissed by British lawmakers as preposterous, but the EU's chief Brexit negotiator has warned that "accounts need to be cleared" before any exit can take place.
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By the mid 2000s, the idea of a high-profile actress appearing on the cover of People to discuss her choice as Ms. MacGraw had 20 years earlier seemed preposterous.
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The most cohesive section is the middle, between "Preschooled," which focuses on the very young, and "Preposterous," a non sequitur of a finale that deals, partly, with speed-dating seniors.
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We just assumed that he would be an authority in what he was saying, and the idea of trying to interpret the technicality of his words seemed preposterous to us.
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" She discussed the "bouts of severe depression" Zaghari-Ratcliffe has gone through in prison, and described her trial: "At her own trial, she wasn't allowed to speak, which is preposterous.
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"The ad was so preposterous and asinine that we felt we had no choice but to have fun with it," Impossible Foods' chief communications officer, Rachel Konrad, told Business Insider.
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It was preposterous to believe, as my anti-war friends did, that Bush's team was deliberately engineering a series of events that would simply lead to them being utterly discredited.
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At some point, every American president, from the serious men on down to the honking, needy, pathetic, and preposterous Trump, have somehow all always alighted on the very same answer.
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Her grotesque and glittering body of work was the product of sheer nerve and preposterous talent, and it is still less known in this country than it ought to be.
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A later scene involving a preposterous musical number staged in front of the school board is supposed to be the climax but was probably funnier onstage than it is here.
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It's not just that, in the state-run Saudi Press Agency's preposterous telling, a mild-mannered 59-year-old somehow got himself into a fatal fistfight with multiple Saudi officials.
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Mr. Kosky heightens the operetta's cynical spin on marriage and 19th-century bourgeois mores to preposterous hilarity, a jittery Jim Carrey-esque orgy egged on by the conductor Enrique Mazzola.
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But Daniel Petrocelli, the lead attorney for the merging companies, dismissed that argument as "preposterous," saying that AT&T's business relies on finding innovative ways to distribute content to consumers.
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Mr. Kosky heightens the operetta's cynical spin on marriage and 19th-century bourgeois mores to preposterous hilarity, a jittery Jim Carrey-esque orgy egged on by the conductor Enrique Mazzola.
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"I think a lot of middle-class, middle-aged journalists like putting this preposterous intellectual scaffolding on it, saying it's a bit like Shakespeare or Jane Austen," Mr. Abell said.
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" Franken denied the aide's accusation Wednesday, telling Politico, "This allegation is categorically not true and the idea that I would claim this as my right as an entertainer is preposterous.
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"The idea of a joint cybersecurity unit between the United States and Russia is preposterous," Michael Carpenter, a former top Defense Department official overseeing Russia and Eurasia, told VICE News.
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No longer that preposterous figure at the center, no longer that degraded and degrading victim off at the margins of reality and blind with blood, man may at last become himself.
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The latest ramped-up production goals from Tesla Motors this week are "between audacious and preposterous" based on the electric automaker's past forecasts, AutoNation Chairman and CEO Mike Jackson said Friday.
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Cosby's attorney Walter M. Phillips Jr. called the charges "preposterous," and Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor, Jr., citing "insufficient credible and admissible evidence," decided not to press criminal charges.
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HOVERING ABOVE a plush barber's chair in his small hair salon in Peshawar, a city in northern Pakistan, Muhammad Ijaz strokes a beard so intricately designed it verges on the preposterous.
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"The idea that you can blame this on immigration from Africa is I think preposterous and we should call him out when he does so," Khan told BBC radio on Friday.
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With respect to the avoided cost argument: To say that substitution of a more expensive form of electricity in place of a less expensive one yields consumer benefits is, bluntly, preposterous.
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Just ride it to its even more preposterous climax, enjoying Mr. Costner and a steady supporting cast (Gary Oldman as the C.I.A. honcho; Gal Gadot as Bill's wife) along the way.
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Despite that acrimony, Deripaska told the agents in that September 21625 meeting that he thought the theory that Manafort was colluding with Russia to help Trump win the election was preposterous.
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That was preposterous, but he then claimed that an article from the time backed him up (it didn't), mocked the disabled reporter who wrote it, and denied he had done so.
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But it's looking more and more preposterous to desperate federal workers, who pop up hourly on cable news with heartbreaking tales of skipping doses of vital medicines or missing rent payments.
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"Destroyer" was among the most unexpected, just because the premise — Ms. Kidman plays Erin Bell, a dissolute, alcoholic Los Angeles detective with a sordidly violent past — sounded preposterous, even faintly risible.
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Should they collapse, which on any given day does not seem a preposterous thought, the city would come treacherously close to having to put up a "going out of business" sign.
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I had a souvenir of the gracefully stylized and mildly preposterous gesture that is the basis of Salt Bae's fame, the source of his nickname, and the point of his restaurant.
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With 5.4 seconds left in the half, Steph raced the length of the court and put up a characteristically preposterous floater that kissed in off the very top of the glass.
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Mr. Trump insisted on preposterous claims about conflicts that ostensibly disqualified Mr. Mueller and ordered Mr. McGahn to make sure that the Justice Department removed the special counsel from his post.
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"His first Asian visit is turning out to be preposterous, cringe-worthy and a disaster waiting to happen for Southeast Asia people," said a farmers' group called Union of Agricultural Workers.
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As with the war on drugs, the chief villains in this account are the vectors: the social media companies and their recommendation algorithms, which stoke the viral profusion of preposterous content.
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Partly because "Miss Sloane" is more a character study than a coherent political drama, it fumbles the issue it purports to address, and it eventually runs aground in a preposterous ending.
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Ms. Bell (who also wrote the preposterous script) and Ed Helms play an unhappily childless twosome who practice "results-based" sex by means of a phone app that tracks ovarian cycles.
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This should be the future of TV design — but it should've been available in a 22K TV since buying 63K remains just as preposterous now as it was at CES 26.
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It's a preposterous claim, first because no one knows how much oil lies beneath the refuge, and second because $1 billion is only a sliver of the $85033 trillion tax cut.
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In these long, splendidly preposterous set pieces (one involving an extortion attempt that seems too outrageous to be true), you might notice why Mr. Cosby means so much to Mr. Chappelle.
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"There is a long history of US. bullying at the UN, but this is a preposterous example -- the purely internal affairs of a nation," Ambassador Gholamali Khoshroo said, addressing the council.
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For him, this project was a chance to return to that era and savor the victory — and to bask in the joy we experience when our heroes pull off the preposterous.
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I do like it that the board of trustees unanimously rejected this nonsense, that I do think this is proof that the world actually does need more cowboys because it&aposs preposterous.
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It may sound like a "crazy fact", Ms Uddin writes, but a central thread of Islamophobia in the United States is the preposterous notion that Islam is not, properly speaking, a religion.
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"I heard his lawyer said her claims were preposterous and I thought, 'My foot,' " says Green, now 66, who, along with other accusers, spoke to PEOPLE for an extensive story in 2006.
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In one such letter last week, Page said the committee's request for detailed information about his recent contacts with Russians is "preposterous" and "illogical," and is " based on "lies from corrupt politicians.
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Still, Mr Fitzpatrick says that some kind of high-level engagement is overdue: he thinks it preposterous that the only American who knows Mr Kim is Dennis Rodman, a retired basketball player.
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The notion that the burkini is a form of "enslavement of women", as Manuel Valls, France's prime minister, put it, and so offensive that it is likely to cause disorder, is preposterous.
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It is easy to dismiss such beliefs as preposterous and to think of them as coming from a paranoid fringe of society that deeply distrusts the government, but such theories are pervasive.
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Then came revelations of a scheme so preposterous that it was hard to believe: Aides to the governor had deliberately created a traffic jam at the world's busiest bridge as political payback.
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" So now we have an actual, accredited university, where people go to get bachelors and advanced degrees, trying to protect itself from sanctions in the most preposterous, existential way: "Sure, it happened.
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When our most important diplomatic voice is not truthful or trusted, the US runs the risk of becoming no different from Beijing, Moscow, or any other regime ridiculed for its preposterous claims.
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" He continues, "We also believe that her newly minted version of events including her new California claims are equally preposterous and unfortunately, the product of an unstable personality with a vivid imagination.
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The request was both unprecedented and preposterous, but it was not, as far as I can tell, illegal, even if the aim was to undercut an investigation into the president's own campaign.
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The film, a mock anthology of fragmentary episodes from preposterous telenovelas, is a minor addition to the Ruiz corpus, which runs to more than 100 titles, among them a handful of masterpieces.
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The agencies have called the writers' claims preposterous, arguing that their services are needed more than ever in a changing media environment in which Netflix, Amazon and Apple are on the rise.
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The idea that "in 2018 we are still having a conversation" about election staff members analyzing signatures, he added later, "is preposterous in a world that now includes biometrics and block chain."
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"The idea that discussion over whether Google does business with CBP and ICE is not related to their work is preposterous," a former Google employee said after the new rules were unveiled.
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Jo's editors are happy to have sensational tales about women that end in either marriage or death, but her impulse to make literature out of "domestic struggle" seems either radical or preposterous.
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The notion that scientists can tinker with a few genes — let alone hundreds of them — simultaneously, and know precisely how such manipulation will affect an individual is simply preposterous at this time.
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The windowsill, once uncluttered, now casts shadows like the battlement of a castle: The entire length is littered with vessels whose labels make preposterous metaphysical promises, all of which I half-believe.
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More preposterous still, later on, is the gleam of golden arches reflected in Ray's windshield, and the drumroll that we hear just before he reveals his expansionist dream to Mac and Dick.
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To almost any Western reader, the notion that North Korea might actually be planning to stare down the USA in some future nuclear face-off will sound preposterous, if not outright insane.
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Episode 423 - "Schism" Villain Damien Darhk ends up having a pretty preposterous endgame, but after everything that has come before the finale, it's still undeniably satisfying to see Oliver take him down.
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However, when a prosecutor suggested that one of the defense's arguments was "preposterous," Shkreli arched his eyebrows and turned to make a smilingly devilish face at another of his lawyers, Marc Agnifilo.
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Structurally, it can't use them to satirize Silicon Valley excess, because it already has the preposterous Gavin Belson (Matt Ross), head of the fictional tech giant Hooli, to do that for it.
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But at least one expert familiar with the Soyuz module's construction told Gizmodo it is preposterous to suggest that someone could have drilled the hole in space, due to the constraints of microgravity.
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You're a young man, but you're probably still old enough to remember that there was a time not long ago when gay marriage seemed like a preposterous idea that would never ever happen.
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In life, Halszkaraptor would have looked like a preposterous fusion of a Velociraptor and a goose—which, given the sterling reputation of geese, would probably just make the Velociraptor twice as terrifying, actually.
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Because you see preposterous levels of wealth sometimes being created around these millisecond differences in financial transactions that nobody can explain to us whether it adds any actual real value to the economy.
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From the preposterous logo rollout to the mere concept of Los Angeles acquiring two teams in a year, the Chargers are going to be hard-pressed to get everyone on board so easily.
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Cosby's lawyer called the claim "preposterous"; the district attorney, citing "insufficient credible and admissible evidence," decided not to press criminal charges, and her civil lawsuit against Cosby was settled out of court. 244.
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As a candidate, Trump "made really extraordinary reprehensible comments targeted directly at our client," Fidell told reporters Friday, calling the situation "one of the most preposterous states of affairs" in American legal history.
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It&aposs preposterous and I don&apost think it&aposs so surprising that you have a person like this but it is surprising that you have people voting for her, buying into that.
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The premise of Elvis & Nixon isn't quite as preposterous: it imagines what happened before and during a meeting that actually did take place between Elvis Presley and then-President Richard Nixon in 1970.
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Cowed by the "survivors must be believed" hooey — as if there were a link between X chromosomes and truth-telling — Republicans blithely went along, as if this preposterous mistaken-identity scenario were incontestable.
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Sydney-based fund manager Merlon Capital Partners sent a letter to the board attacking what it called a "preposterous" and "inept" deal and seeking an explanation on how the sale could be stopped.
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It would be preposterous, of course, to state that the crisis faced by Puerto Rico in the 21st century is similar in scale to the one experienced by Ireland in the 19th century.
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Which brings us to perhaps the most preposterous rationale for not electing someone to a Hall of Fame: "He's a Hall of Fame player that five teams couldn't wait to get rid of."
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But MGS 2 considered a similar dilemma: If new protagonist Raiden officiously follows orders from an increasingly preposterous central command, to what extent is he, and by extension the player, really in control?
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Maybe this is how New Hampshire will set the tone for the rest of the primaries, by allowing Sanders to achieve what a year ago would have seemed preposterous, taking an early lead.
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"The idea that it's racist is preposterous," Dana Perino, a Fox News host who was a press secretary in the George W. Bush administration, told her fellow Fox host Tucker Carlson last fall.
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Such strenuously flabbergasting and preposterous pop displays bolster the general undertone of the modish 'visionary' nature of Schöffer's work, associating his flashing and spinning techno-decorative oeuvre with magical management and paranormal paradises.
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It's completely preposterous as it plays out, and you're kind of amazed that even as you are invited to laugh at it because of its absurdity, you're also moved at the same time.
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News of the American meetings with the coup plotters has already been a propaganda boon for Mr. Maduro, providing fuel for his longstanding preposterous attempts to blame the United States for Venezuela's problems.
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Mr. Price made the preposterous claim that repealing the Affordable Care Act really wouldn't hurt people as long as they had bare-bones insurance policies that paid for treatment only in catastrophic circumstances.
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The idea of it now seems almost quaint, like plague doctor masks or Cold War duck-and-cover drills, but that wasn't what struck me as preposterous about my boyfriend's apple-picking story.
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Deripaska told investigators their theories about Manafort's role on the campaign were "preposterous" and disputed any potential connections between Russia and the Trump campaign, a person familiar with the exchange told the Times.
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When Richard Holmes set out years ago for south-central France, at 18, with a backpack and a preposterous-looking hat, he believed himself to be on the trail of Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Sidebar WASHINGTON — The federal judiciary has built an imposing pay wall around its court filings, charging a preposterous 10 cents a page for electronic access to what are meant to be public records.
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I have friends who have been parishioners at Trinity Lutheran, and it is preposterous to think that if Missouri helps pay for a playground, that will be the end of true faith there.
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Wynn, 753, has denied the accusations published by the Wall Street Journal as "preposterous" and said they were instigated by his ex-wife, an accusation that a representative for Elaine Wynn has denied.
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" Iran didn't take too kindly to the U.S. show of force at the U.N. however, saying: "There is a long history of U.S. bullying at the UN, but this is a preposterous example.
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If you find Beauty to be precious or preposterous — surely a cup or two of Sherwin-Williams would be enough to sicken even a healthy teenager, let alone one scarfing down shoes and dirt?
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"The preposterous attempt by minister Pavlos Polakis to interfere with how the Administration of the Bank of Greece and I personally perform our duties is a gross institutional transgression," Stournaras said in a statement.
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It might sound preposterous, but to me it's no more ridiculous than asking people to spend at least $1K to fly and stay somewhere to celebrate something that statistically has a 50/50 shot.
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When a dean who'd read comics as a kid dismissed Uslan's pitch as preposterous, Uslan asked him to recount the story of Moses, then pointed out the undeniable parallels to Superman's well-known origin.
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James Comey couldn't believe he was briefing the incoming president about an interaction he may have had with a bunch of prostitutes, and it was equally preposterous for the president — for a different reason.
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Those concerns could seem preposterous, except that Sessions and his staff revealed those sorts of political inclinations already, both in how they have run the Justice Department and how they announced the task force.
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"The government has created a mess, and it's preposterous for them to shift the burden onto civil society," said Cathleen Caron, director of Justice In Motion, a global network of immigration advocates and lawyers.
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Denied entry to the United States out of the preposterous popular misconception of their being German spies, the 937 Jews were sent back to Europe to await the calling up of their visa numbers.
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"If our Western colleagues and above all Washington do everything again not to notice these facts then any of their talk about an end to bloodshed in Syria will simply become preposterous," wrote Zakharova.
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Hodges, which secured a fundamental right for gay couples to marry, Kagan pushed John Bursch, the lawyer arguing against that right, to own some of the more preposterous implications of what he was saying.
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And the idea, frankly, that a news organization would be in reruns of 'Shark Tank' during perhaps the biggest news cycle of our generation, I find preposterous, but nonetheless, that's not what we do.
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Putin, a pure Soviet product, traffics in lies — the supposed Western encirclement of Russia, the preposterous notion that all the Russian forces and materiel in eastern Ukraine have been figments of the world's imagination.
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Once described by The New York Times as "a writer of fairly engaging and preposterous claptrap," there has been a long-standing discussion on whether King's works are really literature or just glorified pulp.
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" White specifically identified federal environmental laws as "graphic examples of federal shackles on basic state rights in Texas," arguing that "the U.S. Congress and the courts have stretched the commerce clause to preposterous lengths.
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SEOUL, South Korea — Punishing a foreign tourist with 15 years of prison and hard labor for trying to steal a poster inscribed with a political slogan might seem preposterous in most of the world.
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"To make sure no one contradicts their preposterous denials, they are preventing access to Rakhine to anyone or any organization that might bear witness to their atrocities, including the U.N. Security Council," Haley said.
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Neil Cross, who created the show and still writes it, has a gift for packaging the lurid and the preposterous into hypnotizing psychodrama that moves fast enough to keep you from thinking too hard.
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You could go to Demand or eHow and find preposterous articles, like how to put on bikini underwear, because someone had typed that once into Google, and so you guys were creating that. Yeah.
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"The Netanyahu event was arranged with the public and private support of the Obama administration, and the notion that it was done at the behest of any donor is preposterous," a center spokeswoman said.
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They dutifully cough up a hastily written and widely criticized memo making the preposterous argument that a president who led crowds in chants of "lock her up" believed Comey was too harsh on Clinton.
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"To argue that the Court now has enough information to determine whether State conducted an adequate search is preposterous," wrote Lamberth, who has tangled with Clinton aides for decades in a series of cases.
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It should be said, in closing, that the Philharmonic's program was preposterous: The orchestra last played one of these works (the Grieg) just 10 months ago, and the other just nine months before that.
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That wink of self-awareness—at the folly and joy of building something as preposterous and powerful as a world brain—is why, with Wikipedia, you know you are getting the best possible information.
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"Partly because 'Miss Sloane' is more a character study than a coherent political drama, it fumbles the issue it purports to address, and it eventually runs aground in a preposterous ending," Mr. Holden wrote.
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The idea of providing a data network from space direct to devices seems preposterous on its face — most data communications satellites require communication with ground stations that then relay information with end-point devices.
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I mean a real witch hunt, where people testify to crimes invisible to others and bordering on the preposterous, before a court that prefers imaginary deeds to actual evidence and that aggressively executes innocents.
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In the age of Trump, Mr. Friedlander's preposterous arrogance, which extends to believing he can solve every political problem in a quick sound bite, does not seem so silly, which he seems to understand.
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It's preposterous and glorious all at once, and when The Golden Circle focuses on hitting the sweet spot between glorious stupidity and sheepish but unashamed enjoyment of said glorious stupidity, it works really well.
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"I think it's so preposterous, I haven't even discussed it with my clients," said Pierre Rougier, an owner of PR Consulting, who works with brands like Hood by Air, J. W. Anderson and Louis Vuitton.
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Some rumors are preposterous, such as the one about how he sneaked off anonymously to play golf on Scottish courses, or that he built tunnels in Baja California to smuggle booze (Mexico didn't have Prohibition).
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Up until that point, though, there was a brief window of time for various corners of the sports commentariat to proudly parade their bloated, increasingly preposterous theory: that Boston is better without their best player.
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The joke finishes by making the story even more preposterous, as Trump's imagined staffers cut the gorilla footage down to just the fighting and Trump talks to the TV, believing that they can hear him.
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Khan called the comments "preposterous" on the BBC's Today program on Friday, claiming that violent crime has risen across the country and London has been forced to tackle the issue with a smaller police budget.
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The offering sounds both brilliant and preposterous, yet it has already attracted some smart investors, including Scott and Cyan Banister and early Google engineer Harry Cheung, who've provided the company with $650,000 in seed funding.
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Perhaps the most preposterous pair are the Economic and Social Committee, which brings together trade union and civil representatives for monthly meetings, and the Committee of the Regions, which does the same for regional authorities.
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"India rejects the irresponsible and preposterous statement by the foreign minister of Pakistan with a clear objective of whipping up war hysteria in the region," a spokesman for India's foreign office said in a statement.
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When George W. Bush was president, the preposterous belief that the attacks of September 11th 2001 were an "inside job" spread far and wide among left-wingers, and became conventional wisdom in the Arab world.
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Anti-gay bigotry also fueled the preposterous case against Elizabeth Ramirez, Kristie Mayhugh, Cassandra Rivera, and Anna Vasquez, four women barely out of their teens—lesbians and Latinas, two of them mothers of young children.
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"I'm going to build a big, beautiful wall and Mexico is going to pay for it" may be preposterous, but it is easy to understand, and the human brain, in its weakness, likes easy things.
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Thus, claiming it's unconstitutional to limit officially sanctioned religious expression in government to only one faith tradition implies the truly preposterous: that the founding fathers didn't know what they meant when writing the First Amendment!
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What sets this film apart from ancient-history dramas such as Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" (2006) or the preposterous "One Million Years BC" (1966) is that the dialogue is all conducted in Rhaetic, an extinct language.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman who works as a corporate lawyer with an Alaska energy company has accused U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of groping her in 1999, a charge he called "preposterous" and untrue.
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Ethan, on the other hand, is a little more improvisational, and is forever trying to find ways around killing anyone, even if it means executing a somewhat preposterous and possibly slapdash plan to do so.
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But it was also her refusal to heed warnings and her rejection of self-pity that had helped her articulate feminism, to venture the then-preposterous question of whether anyone was really born a woman.
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There is no introduction to the lost world these monsters stalked, what Mongolia was like 70 million years ago, or how a creature as preposterous as T. bataar ever came to exist on our planet.
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You can see why Janey and Cleveland would wrangle a group of activists, all seasoned infiltrators of the industry, to attempt the preposterous act of liberating thousands upon thousands of chickens from one particular farm.
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But in 1930, the idea that "primitive" people with no interest in labor productivity or capital accumulation and with only simple technologies at their disposal had already solved the "economic problem" would have seemed preposterous.
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All seven were convicted and sentenced to long prison terms on the basis of preposterous evidence, including that the Canadian, Neil Bantleman, used magical powers to seduce the children and render the crime scenes invisible.
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Over time, of course, the sleight of hand has grown increasingly sophisticated, to the point where computer-generated imaging now makes it seem as if even the most preposterous events are unfolding before our eyes.
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He blasted the charges against him as "completely disingenuous, meritless and a baseless invention of your imagination" and "preposterous and dangerous," dismissing Democrats' allegations as "fantasy" despite having hours of testimony to back them up.
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The notion that it might, in some important moral sense, be bad that gazelles suffer when eaten by lions seems preposterous to many people, almost like a reductio ad absurdum of veganism and animal rights.
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Before the helping herds came glaciers and ice ages and millenniums of receding waters and shifting tides that left behind these former seabeds turned preposterous dunescapes that no course designer could have imagined or sculpted.
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Jane is my father's "girlfriend," a term that feels preposterous for someone who wears orthopedic shoes and travels with a baggie of bran — let alone spent the last 61 years utterly entwined with my mother.
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And both President Trump and his colleagues are rallying behind Jordan with the preposterous theory that it's all a conspiracy cooked up by the "deep state" to shield a former FBI agent from their calumnies.
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"India rejects the irresponsible and preposterous statement by the foreign minister of Pakistan with a clear objective of whipping up war hysteria in the region," a spokesman for India's foreign office said in a statement.
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"The degree of risk [Equifax] assumes is found, by most of the IT staff who worked elsewhere, to be preposterous," said a former employee, who worked in IT at Equifax and is now a cybersecurity engineer.
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"It is preposterous that the Trump administration claims to care about preserving pre-existing condition protections for millions of Americans while simultaneously peddling shoddy, substandard junk plans that undermine and weaken those very protections," Schumer said.
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Tesla has denied claims that there were safety defects in the suspension of its Model S and Model X cars, angrily refuting "preposterous" allegations that it made customers sign contracts forbidding them to talk to regulators.
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He can tell these preposterous stories that are ridiculous and make no sense, yet are strangely compelling, and write characters that are in the book for all of three lines and become kind of iconic characters.
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Blindspot "Blindspot" was one of NBC's success stories in the first half of the TV season, and on Monday night it came back after its winter hiatus as fast-paced and preposterous and addictive as ever.
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"It is unbelievable that MSNBC would continue to trot her out given the multiple preposterous stories she has told to avoid simply saying - I wrote these things, I believed these things, I was wrong," Barron said.
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The climax of this plot line hits in the following hours or days after they've muttered said random phrase, and they're suddenly served an ad on Facebook of the exact same thing they said before. Preposterous!
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O'Brien is the former, a Southerner with a grey goatee standing in for any good ol' boy, while Meyer is the latter, an ambitious but largely unqualified leader of the free world, taken to preposterous conclusions.
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Harris scoffed at Chinese objections, saying he believed it was "preposterous" that Beijing would try to push South Korea against a system to defend itself, and suggested Beijing should focus on trying to influence North Korea.
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For some preposterous reason, Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr decided to rest Steph on the bench for the fourth quarter as they led the Wizards by 18 points at the end of the third.
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But even I know enough about the concepts of "safe" and "out" to have some serious questions about what the hell is going on with this absolutely preposterous excuse for a call during this softball game.
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But allegations and insinuations that Kislyak was the point person for this — and that it could have played out in broad daylight at meetings on Capitol Hill or at Trump campaign events — are preposterous, they say.
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As almost everyone knows, Mr. Weiner's meteoric political career was ended — or at least interrupted — by a sexting scandal in which he, sometimes under the preposterous pseudonym Carlos Danger, flirted with and exhibited himself to women.
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But if the speculation is correct, another preposterous development in the era of 45 will have occurred and Trump, aided by his White House lawyers, will have put one over on the supposedly independent judicial branch.
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But it becomes clear that the deeper threat to Ines's comfort comes not from a preposterous character in an ill-fitting suit but rather from the hypocrisy, conformity and casual sexism that define her normal life.
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More recently, the Lonely Island, sometimes with the assistance of real-life stars like T-Pain, Rihanna and Michael Bolton, has conjured a parallel universe of fat beats and preposterous (but all-too-plausible) player poses.
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Most of these attacks against the FBI are so preposterous that they will not be itemized here, except to suggest that these attacks against the FBI are horrendously wrong and create huge political danger for Republicans.
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The billionaire founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Wynn Resorts has denied the allegations as "preposterous" and accused his ex-wife of instigating them for her own gain in litigation against him and his company.
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MCCARTHY: Well -- the whole thing is preposterous because with due respect to Preet, past state of mind or a criminal state of mind is irrelevant unless you&aposve done something that can actually amount to obstruction.
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"Russian accusations towards Ukraine of terrorism in the occupied Crimea sound as preposterous and cynical as the statements of the Russian leadership about the absence of the Russian troops in Donbass (region of Ukraine)," Poroshenko said.
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Mr. Gottlieb's assessments include drawing positive attention to the "robust sex and amusing plotting" in one writer's novel and noting another's "preposterous" story line (though he adds that the preposterousness is what allows for the fun).
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What Draymond seems to be saying is that this is just how his body naturally moves, meaning he's built in some Donald Trump-like incredulity at the preposterous possibility that he has ever done anything wrong.
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The plot here contains one of those last-minute swerves intended to cause an intake of breath that instead left me rolling my eyes, not least because it manages somehow to seem both preposterous and predictable.
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And the preposterous cost projections that American conservative propagandists routinely adduce to prove that "socialized medicine" or a decent public option would exhaust our Treasury are given the lie in each of those countries every day.
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And along racial lines, the wealth gap was preposterous: The median net worth of black families was only $103,030 compared with $134,230 for whites, according to an analysis of Federal Reserve data by the Urban Institute.
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He claimed that he had access to trillions of dollars of his clients' money that he could put in the proposed charitable fund — a figure so preposterous that it left his visitors doubting Mr. Epstein's credibility.
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" For her plaintiffs, she said, "the idea that their only recourse is to go to the very branches of government that are violating their rights when half of them can't even vote is a preposterous notion.
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In October, after controversy erupted over allegations Trump had fondled numerous women and boasted about it, a female corporate lawyer from Alaska accused Thomas of groping her in 1999, a charge Thomas called "preposterous" and untrue.
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"Allegations in the media on Pakistan's involvement with HQN are preposterous," a Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a statement, using an acronym for the Haqqani network, which the United States has designated as a terrorist organization.
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LONDON (Reuters) - London Mayor Sadiq Khan said it was preposterous for Donald Trump to blame a rise in violent crime in the city on immigration after the U.S. president criticized his handling of crime and militant attacks.
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Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Gaza's dominant Hamas Islamists, called the U.N. vote a defeat for Trump, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the resolution as "preposterous" and branded the U.N. a "house of lies".
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The billionaire founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Wynn Resorts Ltd has denied the allegations as "preposterous" and accused his ex-wife of instigating them for her own gain in litigation against him and his company.
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So far, he's made the preposterous claim that Obama "wiretapped" him as part of a Nixon-esque plot to steal the election and the false claim that Obama released 122 Guantanamo prisoners who then reengaged in terrorism.
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But Cortes warned jurors not to be fooled by that "preposterous" assertion, pointing to Kelly's now-infamous email to Wildstein in which she wrote, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," as evidence of her guilt.
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The common argument that those installing rooftop solar systems can "exit the grid" is preposterous, because they must remain connected to the conventional system as insurance against periods during which sunlight conditions cannot satisfy their power demands.
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"Unloveable" is a song about the maudlin, teenage self-deprecation Morrissey has embodied since the beginning of his career, and equating Baldwin's tireless civil rights campaigning to being a little bit goth is preposterous to the extreme.
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York is firing back at Stephen Bannon for his "preposterous" claims that the Catholic Church only preaches and practices acceptance of immigrants in order to fill its pews and reap financial rewards.
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A Chinese company has said it is "preposterous" that Stan Lee, the former editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics, did not know he was signing over his name, image and likeness to it on an exclusive basis.
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A group of House Democrats wrote to the president on Thursday, urging him to denounce the "preposterous offer" and saying it "defies belief" that the U.S. government would allow Russian investigators to conduct business on American soil.
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The punishments were called "beyond preposterous" by Reza Marashi, research director of the National Iranian American Council, a Washington-based group that calls for improved relations with Iran but that has been critical of the Iranian government.
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But any plausible assumption about that backup cost reduces further the competitiveness of renewables, and the argument in the aforementioned report that wind and solar power can provide efficiencies relative to gas-fired power is, bluntly, preposterous.
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The studio has, in the usual way, begged and bullied critics not to reveal plot points, and I wouldn't dream of denying you the thrill of discovering just how overstuffed and preposterous a movie narrative can be.
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While this is not the first time that Ecuadorian courts have cracked down on dissent in questionable ways since President Correa took office in 2007, the seemingly preposterous arguments used in the case means it stands out.
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"It is preposterous that several students can't execute their plus-sized specialties at the school, even more so when the resources aren't readily available to us," reads the petition, which is addressed to Parsons' dean, Joel Towers.
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" This one is particularly great because he even touches on how preposterous it is to say "I don't remember" seeing an email with the subject line "I was raped at [the school I am currently president of].
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"Agencies have called the writers' claims preposterous, arguing that their services are needed more than ever in a changing media environment in which Netflix, Amazon and Apple are on the rise," John Koblin of the NYT reports.
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"As always, Jerry Falwell's words speak for themselves," a Northam spokesman told the AP. Virginia Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw (D) called the succession proposal "preposterous," saying West Virginia should focus on fixing its high poverty rate.
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It is a preposterous notion: choosing a mere five albums for a list of the year's most remarkable, out of the dozens, even hundreds, of memorable ones that land on a music critic's desk over 21998 months.
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"Secretary Ross was a banker and the notion that he came up with this on his own is preposterous," said Denise Hulett, an attorney representing the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, one of the plaintiffs.
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An average consumer, I'm afraid, will give up somewhere in between Echo Glow, the sort-of-smart lamp thingy, and the quite preposterous Echo Frames, a pair of glasses that are essentially Google Glass sans a display.
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It was only a matter of time before a hole would create itself from the weeping slough of the man's face, presenting a glimpse of the preposterous fundamentals, rather like the truth window in a straw house.
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The outright dismissal of the idea that Facebook, which makes billions by selling the idea that its platform can sway people to consume whatever it is an advertiser is selling, couldn't also sway an election is preposterous.
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"[Uber and Lyft] are making the claim — which is preposterous — that they're more like Craigslist, that they provide a space for buyers and sellers to meet," said Rebecca Givan, a professor of labor relations at Rutgers University.
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To the outside world, the idea that broadcasts that also showcase freedom and democracy, and how people are allowed to enjoy love and life, can anger a country enough to risk going to war might seem preposterous.
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As Ian Parker points out in the piece, Hannah's second Poirot book, "Closed Casket," features a preposterous but charming Mallory-esque character whose own multitude of falsehoods includes the pretense that he is dying of kidney disease.
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The Russian leader also lashed out at the United States, saying it was preposterous for Washington to ask for Moscow's help with North Korea after sanctioning Russian companies whom U.S officials accused of violating North Korea sanctions.
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Although he promised to pay off the debt in eight years, a preposterous objective to start with, what Trump has done is sign into law an increase of $4.7 trillion in the debt over the next decade.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan on Friday dismissed as preposterous reports that its intelligence agency helped fund a 2009 suicide bombing on a CIA outpost in Afghanistan that was one of the deadliest attacks in the U.S. spy agency's history.
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A man who fired a rifle inside a Washington, D.C. restaurant while investigating the preposterous "Pizzagate" internet rumor that a Satanic child-sex ring was being run by the Clintons was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday.
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It seemed preposterous — yes, the price of Bitcoin was in the thousands, but for Satoshi to even enter the 22017 richest people list (it takes about $23 billion to enter that club), it'd have to rise to $213,221.
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Part of a series of submissions from artist Jennifer Meridian, including a wall of pipe organs and a wall of hammocks, emphasizing that the border project is "preposterous for so many reasons," according to The Wall Street Journal.
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It sounds preposterous given the number and quality of apps that Google produces for Apple's iOS ecosystem, but the iPhone is a direct threat and counter to Google's overarching goal of being ubiquitous on every internet-connected device.
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Just a few years ago the idea that "off-grid" systems could fill the gap seemed preposterous: the market was dominated by charities giving away solar-powered lanterns that could produce a few hours of light at night.
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" In The Washington Post, conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin cheered his performance and puzzled at why he wasn't loading up for a primary run: Christie's "excuse," she wrote, "that he's not 'ready' for a job promotion is increasingly preposterous.
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When the West prohibited the gold trade in 2013 as a sanctions violation, the police report alleged the network concocted records of shipments of food at preposterous volumes and prices to continue giving Iran access to foreign currency.
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Arrieta also holds the regular season record for longest home run by a pitcher "in the Statcast™ era (2015-present)," which is a preposterous thing to say and write, but I'm just giving you the facts, man.
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Maybe McConnell hopes that, when he finds himself standing next to the President as he says something preposterous, his reputation for cynicism will safeguard his dignity—that no one will believe that he believes what Trump is saying.
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As inhabitants of a ludicrously well-defended empire, one that gobbles billions yearly for its stratospheric defense budgets, it's preposterous to imagine that dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of economic or situational migrants would pose a serious threat.
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Having lost her job at a tire store, she's merrily sunken into a state of cheerful denial about her insolvency, preferring to unleash another preposterous tall tale whenever her daughters try to jostle her into facing the situation.
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Science has proven that people who make preposterous claims like "The early bird gets the worm" and "I get so much accomplished in the morning" are probably so prolific and perky because they're clearly not exhausted from humping.
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Mr. Trump does face a potential collision with Congress, where Democrats and Republicans alike dismissed the Saudi explanation, offered more than two weeks after Mr. Khashoggi's death, as preposterous and demanded that Congress hold the kingdom to account.
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Its humor comes from a seamless blend of high and low, and a series of preposterous scenarios that allow us to see ourselves and our place in the cycles of nature, culture, and the world overall more clearly.
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In the communal idiom of Gawker and its viewers, Hogan was as preposterous a cultural figure as Donald Trump was an absurd political figure—but the rest of the country, it turned out, was speaking a different language.
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The pattern of my life has been that on Thanksgiving, in kitchens from New York to Tennessee to Illinois to my home in Minnesota, we assemble this preposterous concoction, enjoying the labor, the company and the delicious results.
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For the rest of the game's dozens of hours, you must deliver one load of cargo after another, fighting off the occasional enemies, human and B.T. The plot of the game is preposterous, but its mood is not.
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But it is the show's stubborn curse that it's willing to cut off the most popular and meaningful artist in pop at the knees in order to preserve its sense of self-importance — a preposterous and careless choice.
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"To think that Jerrod would want harm to come to Jenna is so outlandish and preposterous, because he loves his children to the extent that he would never want to inflict that type of harm to them," Henrickson says.
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" At the same time, said Jake Schlachter, executive director of We Own It, it's "preposterous" to think that "we could just talk about getting votes without having to worry about the needs of the people who cast those votes.
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I mean, if you asked somebody 40 years ago, are we all going to be walking around with tiny little slabs of a computer and constantly looking at them and using them all the time, that would seem preposterous.
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"I wholeheartedly stand behind the women who are coming out and saying what they're saying now, it's incredibly hard to do that, and the idea that it could be in any way for their gains is preposterous," Hall continued.
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Pundits and tweeters have given preposterous examples from kidnapping an opposing candidate to bribing voters and rounding up Democrats to tampering with ballot boxes, all of which are criminal, as were many of the impeachable offenses of President Nixon.
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Just asking that question sucks you into a world that's like Pizzagate on bath salts, a galaxy-brained, 4chan-bred conspiracy theory that has apparently convinced an alarming number of adults that all kinds of preposterous things are true.
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"It is preposterous that several students can't execute their plus-sized specialties at the school, even more so when the resources aren't readily available to us," reads the petition, which was addressed to the school's executive dean, Joel Towers.
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" Fred T. Goldberg Jr., a tax lawyer and Republican who was the commissioner of the I.R.S. under the first President George Bush, called charges of unethical or illegal behavior "preposterous" and calls for impeachment "just way over the line.
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Interest in his later career has always been unduly dependent on the fact that he's the man who made "Citizen Kane" at the preposterous age of 227.99, but even "Kane" is apparently a tough sell in film classes nowadays.
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The world right now is more farcical than the most ridiculous big- or small-screen comedy; more extravagantly and bombastically preposterous than any superhero franchise movie; and a whole lot scarier than any zombie apocalypse or paranormal shriek-fest.
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"The film is as handsome to watch as it is preposterous to listen to, full of gorgeous nocturnal city images that splash blaring neon colors against filthy, rain-slicked gray," Janet Maslin wrote in her review in The Times.
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You can argue that critics have it in for Zack Snyder — or, if you're the kind of person who thinks they're "bias," that they have it out for him — but the idea that actual money changed hands is preposterous.
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Wide open, multi-level common spaces, and slab-sided partitions and planters also make for conventional battlegrounds in a shooter, but Remedy is practiced enough at this kind of game that combat feels as good as it does preposterous.
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An impressionable and theatrically inclined child when the Acropolis film was omnipresent, I loved it, probably for the same reason I fell for opera around the same time: It had the kind of preposterous grandeur that matched my aspirations.
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Brad Lander, a Democratic city councilman from Brooklyn, described the accusations against Ms. Sarsour as "preposterous," and pointed to her help in raising money to repair two Jewish cemeteries that were vandalized in St. Louis and Pennsylvania in February.
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Posts reference physician burnout that's fueled by preposterous work hours, steep competition, crippling debt, and low salaries (on average, residents carry $250k in student loans and earn just $61.2k a year — which shakes out to about $14 an hour).
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Like Quinones and Meier, she traces the beginning of the current epidemic to 1996, when Purdue Pharma released OxyContin with the claim (preposterous in hindsight) that its new pills would be less addictive than other opioids on the market.
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Because I see the human condition and how preposterous it is, and how there are no answers to our existence, and science and religion are really equally voodoo, and we complicate this with rushing to the destruction of everything.
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"The notion that Senator Sessions -- somebody who committee members have known and served beside for 20 years -- hasn't made a good faith effort to supply the committee with responsive material is preposterous," said a spokeswoman for Grassley, an Iowa Republican.
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Well, it all started when people interested in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum realized that their most interesting aspect was not the preposterous valuation or the planet-jeopardizing energy vampirism, but the secure, unhackable ledger that keeps track of transactions.
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It's a superbly written and acted dark comedy that humanizes its greedy characters as much as it mocks them in preposterous plots that make for delicious television -- much like "Succession," the show that precedes it on HBO on Sunday nights.
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Boris Johnson called U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit proposal "deranged" and "entirely preposterous" in an interview with The Sunday Times — just days after he issued his own plan for "a better Brexit" with a lengthy piece in The Telegraph.
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The GOP nominee said he was willing to take vicious "slings and arrows" for his loyal supporters and said the new claims against him were "preposterous, ludicrous and defy logic" and said that the stories about him had already been discredited.
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McKinnon mixes one-part Egon earnest nerd-thusiasm with two-parts Ian Malcolm (from Jurassic Park) sex appeal, and adds her own generous slathering of special sauce for a deliciously deranged character who feels preposterous and perfect all at once.
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Abe's reminiscences sound preposterous—much like the tall tales in Mr Burton's "Big Fish"—but when the old man is murdered by a supernatural assailant, Jake is prompted to travel to the island to see if the orphanage is actually there.
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They asked about it and I just told them a preposterous story about how we'd tried to get Harambe the year before, but we couldn't agree to his terms or provide the 37 crates of bananas he wanted on his rider.
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It is less preposterous than it sounds: Led Zeppelin toured with Spirit in the late 1960s, and Spirit's Randy Wolfe (who played under the name Randy California) has said that he knows that Mr Page, Zeppelin's guitarist, heard Spirit play "Taurus".
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Of course they believed private valuations had become preposterous; of course the run in private tech stocks couldn't possibly last; and of course, many start-ups, especially those of the "Uber for garden-gnome rearrangement" variety, are in fact largely worthless.
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This idea had a preposterous pay-for mechanism, and there's little evidence the Trump administration is in any way pursuing it, but all this probably helped Trump hang on to the votes of some women who had doubts about him.
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Nearly 50 years after Nixon went to China, Trump should consider a presidential summit between himself and Kim Jong Un. The idea might seem preposterous—and not only because of the current tensions between the United States and North Korea.
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I expected to see a dust-up, a handful of white supremacists in MAGA hats, angry that that they'd been denied a permit to spew their reprehensible bile due to a "culture of political correctness" or some other preposterous catchphrase.
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E. M. Nathanson, whose best-selling 21985 novel "The Dirty Dozen" became the basis of one of the most enduring, if preposterous, World War II movies to come out of Hollywood, died on Tuesday at his home in Laguna Niguel, Calif.
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Isolated on the right wing, Leonard yo-yo-ed the ball between his legs, sent Victor Oladipo sprawling towards the endline, and drove in for a preposterous, up-and-under, off-handed layup, which drew a foul from Steven Adams.
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Fund manager Merlon Capital Partners called AMP's sale "preposterous" and "inept" and threatened to lobby other investors to overthrow the board - many of whom were only appointed earlier this year after others were forced out because of revelations at the inquiry.
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"That is an utterly preposterous explanation for what Mr. Karem engaged in here," Burnham said, However, the judges did not seem particularly troubled by Karem's actions, which the district court found not obviously outrageous in the context of the freewheeling event.
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Mr. Khosrowshahi even insists that Uber can help solve congestion by adding a small number of electric cars, and that it could start using flying taxis in five to 10 years (which is preposterous — Uber doesn't even have a prototype).
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" State Senator John DeFrancisco, a Republican who is seeking his party's nomination to run against Mr. Cuomo this fall, called Mr. Cuomo's explanation of Mr. Percoco's presence in the office "preposterous" and "an insult to the intelligence of New Yorkers.
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The president went on at length about his preposterous proposal to fight the scourge of drugs by executing drug dealers — an idea that many experts say would not stand up in court and would do little to end this epidemic.
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So adapting it into a resource and crew-management game, with a lot of economic and narrative elements that invite you to push your luck to the breaking point, is not as preposterous as Gillen's hypothetical Anna Karenina Railroad Tycoon game.
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Meanwhile, similar policy-neutral issues like Trump's insecure cellphone, his preposterous claim to be too busy to visit the troops, or even his apparent track record of tax fraud don't get progressives worked into a lather in the same way.
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Mr. Sessions said his comment about the Klan was meant as a joke and said it was so preposterous — especially since he was in the middle of prosecuting a case involving the group — that he thought nobody could take it seriously.
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" Though Holden wasn't particularly inspired by the film, he did go on to say that "this empty-headed, preposterous, possibly evil mélange of gunplay and high-speed car chases on Parisian boulevards is a feel-good movie that produces a buzz.
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At a news conference held at United Nations headquarters in New York to release the report's findings, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, ridiculed what he described as "preposterous" assertions by the Syrian and Russian governments denying responsibility.
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In a period of two months, the visionary casino mogul was accused of a decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct, which he called "preposterous," resigned and now has divested himself fully of his stake in the company that bears his name.
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While I thought it was preposterous, I didn't expect either that the state of Pennsylvania (which has a Democratic governor, Tom Wolf) would bring a lawsuit or that a federal judge would be so forthright in calling the administration out.
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One potential problem with Pence's strategy is that some of the Trump comments he treated as preposterous were widely covered and should be memorable to the sort of voter who chooses to spend a Tuesday night watching a vice-presidential debate.
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Laura Helm is the accuser from Georgia who's suing him for $20 million -- and in new docs, obtained by TMZ, she says it's preposterous Usher is calling her out, saying she should've assumed STDs were a possibility when they hooked up.
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We won't have to hear about his puerile antics of buying up the web domains of journalists he despised, or harassing women for his own cheap kicks, or raising the cost of life-saving drugs to preposterous sums with no sense of remorse.
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The platform, adopted on Monday, says China has been asserting "preposterous" claims to the South China Sea to distract its people from economic problems, practices "cultural genocide" in Tibet and Xinjiang, and reaffirms a commitment to sell weapons to self-ruled Taiwan.
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And I think the main concern is that the judge is going to interpret the Constitution, Juan, as it&aposs written and not trying to, like, you know, wail away at some -- any sort of preposterous, you know, creation from their mind.
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"I think the only reason that the investigation was seriously pursued, why there wasn't more skepticism about the preposterous allegations in the first place, was because these four women had recently come out as gay, that they were openly gay," he said.
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It would also show China that the United States still retains the clout to do grave damage to China's economy and its vaulting ambitions in the region, even if it is reluctant to face down China's preposterous claims in the South China Sea.
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Plenty of people have tweeted against the preposterous claim, made by some, that Jonas is not in conventionally muscled shape, and pointed, instead, to the way the celebration of his muscled body simply elides the actual fatphobia rampant in gay dating apps.
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The combination of outlandish jokes and morally malleable teens wrapped up in an innate understanding of today's technology adds up to make Vandal one of the most authentic shows on TV. Season 2 investigates another preposterous premise: Who is the Turd Burglar?
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Since Griffin went down in late December, Redick has settled into a zone normally reserved for Kia Optima pitchmen—scoring 17.8 points per game on 48.8 percent shooting from the field, and throwing in a preposterous 49.7 percent of his three-point attempts.
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Despite that, my go-to anecdote for nearly a full year was the tale of being unable to complete a cover feature on time because I was stuck in Indiana on a Sunday (when there's a preposterous ban on packaged liquor sales).
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Yes, there obviously was a string of contacts with Russians who were peddling one thing or another, but they have not amounted to anything remotely resembling the preposterous idea that Donald Trump, a billionaire in his own right, was an agent of Russia.
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The statement, which also urged South Korea to abandon its "preposterous illusions" for improved ties, comes as Seoul has expressed hopes that a recent summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will help revive dialogue between the Koreas.
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And, of course, King George's taunt of "you'll be back" is no more preposterous than King Donald's claim that the midterm elections are going to result in a "red wave," when every respectable poll, based largely on his unpopularity, foretells just the opposite.
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This argument that Gawker really understood how power works is preposterous given that they didn't notice the conspiracy that was being wielded against them and that they were unwittingly being used by other powerful people with varying agendas—they couldn't even see that.
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To make American exit dependent on Taliban compliance is to wallow in the same mistaken assumption that has prolonged this war beyond all reason: the absurd notion that the United States can "fix" Afghanistan, and the preposterous proposal that we continue to try.
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"The south Korean authorities had better come to their senses before it is too late, shattering the preposterous illusions that an opportunity would come for improved inter-Korean relations if they follow in the footsteps of the United States," the statement said.
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It proved to be the first installment of a blockbuster series whose vivid, even preposterous characters — living "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away," as the opening sequence announced — became pop culture legends and the progenitors of a merchandising bonanza.
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But that didn't keep Kavanaugh's opponents, in politics and the press, from seizing them as evidence of corroboration with Blasey's allegation, which is not preposterous but is also largely uncorroborated, and with the allegation of Kavanaugh's Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez — uncorroborated again.
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And it likely does so because said story — a black man goes undercover and becomes a trusted confidant of some members of the Ku Klux Klan, including David Duke himself — would be written off as preposterous if it occurred in a fictional context.
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Once again, Mr. Cruise plays Ethan Hunt, who leads a crypto government unit called Impossible Missions Force that is as preposterous, politically dubious and near-magical as it was in the mid-1960s when the TV show first hit, latex masks and all.
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In 298, in an act of faith as preposterous as building a baseball diamond in an Iowa cornfield to lure major-league ghosts, as in the movie "Field of Dreams," Wheeler constructed the ostentatious French Second Empire palace in a largely undeveloped area.
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In the abstract, ideas on the subject lurk in the same part of my mind as platitudes about creating "strong female leads" onscreen, and a well-intentioned but preposterous pillowcase that says "Consent Is Sexy," gifted to me by my undergraduate university.
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But the real coup of the weekend came on Twitter Saturday evening, when Bukele and other dignitaries attended a grand dinner with Qatar's emir and that night's guest of honor, Ivanka Trump, fresh off her preposterous softball interview with her own spokeswoman.
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" First, he quoted then-Oral Roberts law school dean Charles Kothe, the same man Hill said had asked her to drive Thomas to the airport, as saying, "I find the references to the alleged sexual harassment (by Thomas) not only unbelievable but preposterous.
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Last week, an Alaska lawyer accused Justice Thomas of groping her at a dinner party in 22014; he has denied the claim as "preposterous," as he did after the charges made in 240 by Ms. Hill, who is now a Brandeis University professor.
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