Once they're up and running they need so much rubbish that they can make a nonsense of policies to promote recycling.

BBC

At one point he accepted that issue ads might make a nonsense of existing law, but implied it might be the law that needed changing.

ECONOMIST: A controversial old debate returns to the Supreme Court

What details exist have served as fodder for pundits, who make quick work of dismissing the accusations as overly-sensitive liberal nonsense.

BBC: Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, and sexual harassment

You've got guys playing all over the place, and then you have his alto saxophone playing these beautiful, lyrical lines over the top of this nonsense, and it all in my mind tends to make sense.

NPR: Ornette Coleman's Challenging Sound

While this idea might make sense for sourcing coffeemakers, it was a nonsense approach to assembling perhaps the most complicated and potentially dangerous machines shy of nuclear reactors.

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