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Cramer warned that these moments can feel chaotic — even irrational — but are often driven by valuation extremes finally snapping back toward equilibrium.—
Luke Fountain, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
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Often, these unjustifiable fears arise simply because people draw irrational conclusions from rational concerns.—
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However, the market is made up of both sensible and irrational participants, and all of that action, both the logical and illogical, is going to be reflected in the stock chart.—
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Yet the Administration not only acts as if residency is a magic condition but offers a completely illogical and contradictory definition of what residency is.—
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Mid-century collective behavior theories considered social movements to be nonrational, spontaneous events occurring during moments of social and cultural breakdown.—
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Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.—
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There is a widespread but fallacious perception that India's tariffs are inordinately high.—
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The same economists who believe in the same fallacious economic notions?—
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Importantly, the president already has full legal authority to impose tariffs when other nations’ behavior places an unreasonable burden on our economy, including through environmental negligence.—
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The logic was that Spirit had projected the league would grow at a rate that the league itself found unreasonable, and so would not be able to field a team while also paying Rodman.—
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From start to finish, the Red Sox deployed a careless, thoughtless, and passive stratagem.—
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To do a lot less foolish, thoughtless, stupid, idiotic things.—
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As Legally Blonde's Elle Woods, Witherspoon charted a memorable path from dumb blonde to Harvard Law School graduate.—
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Celebrities fight it out to be eliminated from the competition as quickly as possible to avoid being crowned the nation’s dumbest.—
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“Surd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surd. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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