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Recent Examples of nonsense Writing nonsense just to make word / article quotas. Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025 The Baltimore Sun owes Baltimore Ravens placekicker Justin Tucker a headline apology and let this nonsense go. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025 The Padres’ winter of nonsense and nothingness is no more. Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025 Dean Blandino, the former vice president of officiating for the NFL and current rules analysts for FOX Sports, says that’s nonsense. Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nonsense
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonsense
Noun
  • People will be painting, planting trees, spreading mulch and cleaning up garbage starting at 9 a.m.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Other videos on social media show people picking up food scraps from the garbage.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.
    Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.
    Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The larcenous prattle is, in this sense, a typically Wiig-ian set piece: sunny, strained and flailing for dignity.
    Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Bong Joon-ho is addressing chatter about Donald Trump being the inspiration behind Mark Ruffalo‘s villainous character in Mickey 17.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Over the years, the filmmaker and Kraven the Hunter actor have had to navigate the chatter around their age difference.
    Jen Juneau, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But — and here’s the punchline most of you already saw coming — despite the many things that have happened since May 2022, Manchester United are rubbish.
    Carl Anka, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And that's where a consideration of stupidity is essential.
    John Baldoni, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Your article exemplifies the stupidity and selfishness of those ruling California’s Democratic Party.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The child first dialed 911 and began saying gibberish to the dispatcher before hanging up and dialing again.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Fried memes and hysterical gibberish suffocate the internet nowadays.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.
    Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The post-election blahs are endemic across the big three cable news outlets, but the viewership numbers of individual networks can drop farther when the candidate seen as their ideological opposite wins.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024

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“Nonsense.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsense. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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