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• r  in an absurd manner or to an absurd degree
  an absurdly rich young woman

• Granted he is (to put it delicately) an unusually hard-driving and successful businessman, but the Bill Gates of our imagination is absurdly overblown.
• In the late 1970s, it claimed, absurdly in retrospect, that the Soviet economy was two-thirds the size of America's.
• Minutes earlier, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPod Nano, the absurdly tiny, unbearably sexy successor to the iPod Mini.

News & Articles

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• Review: 'Urinetown' makes quite a splash at the Eagle Theatre
  It was so absurdly entertaining that I had to pee.URINETOWN at the Eagle Theatre: June 21-29. Tickets $25 to $30.
  June 21, 2013 - The Star-Ledger
• Ben Franklin Wanted to See What Our 21st Century Lives Are Like
  Do you ever lie awake at night wondering what the world will look like in two or three hundred years? Ben Franklin did. And he thought that by the 21st century not only would humanity have some absurdly cool gadgets, men might live to be over 900 years old. Read more...        
  June 19, 2013 - Gizmodo
• LeBron James Struggling With His Shot in the NBA Finals
  After posting absurdly efficient shooting numbers during the regular season, so far, LeBron James has been unable to re-create that magic against the San Antonio Spurs defense in the NBA Finals.
  June 18, 2013 - Slam

Quotes

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• Rowan Williams in Afrique en ligne
  Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, said: "I can't see any justification for this at all. I think that this is an absurdly disproportionate response to what is at best a minor cultural faux pas. And I think that it's done the Sudanese...
• Alonso Duralde in FOXNews
  Reviewing the film for MSNBC, Alonso Duralde wrote that Bale's Batman in "Batman Begins" "sounded absurdly deep, like a 10-year-old putting on an `adult' voice to make prank phone calls. This time, Bale affects an eerie rasp, somewhat akin to Brenda...
• Iain Duncan Smith in WalesOnline
  Mr Duncan Smith said: "Rehabilitation of offenders should be our top priority since so much of crime is committed by people recently released from jail. The monolithic and absurdly expensive wasteful NOMS system has been proved to be a complete...