It is absurd that the question of how to structure and regulate these giants should be dealt with by a single state.

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The question would seem absurd to Britons, who invented the modern roundabout in the 1960s.

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The question may sound absurd, but there are plenty of lottery winners who have done just that.

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Forget about the fact that the workers were unionized and led by unions demanding absurd levels of compensation, the better question was why Hostess snacks were being baked in the U.S. at all.

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Lord Strathclyde labelled the idea "absurd", as he responded to a question from Labour peer Lord Campbell-Savours, during question time in the House of Lords on 24 January 2012.

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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

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There you have it: What seemed absurd to the point of parody a decade ago is now so plausible that no one but me even thinks to question it.

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