See nonsensical on Wiktionary
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"text": "Well, her very foolish grandmother has mixed herself up in some nonsensical correspondence with the court of St. Germains; or, rather, has let herself be made a tool by Mr. Trevanion, who, I am happy to say, is not Ethel's husband; they arrested him just in time.",
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"text": "President Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum ordering an investigation of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and his use of the autopen […] is also nonsensical fan service, amplifying addled MAGA conspiracy theories that contend, with a straight face, that Biden was really a robotic clone.",
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"code": "he",
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"word": "意味不明な"
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"word": "nenekara"
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"word": "бессмы́сленный"
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{
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"word": "estólido"
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{
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"word": "meningslös"
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{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"lang_code": "th",
"roman": "rái-sǎa-rá",
"sense": "without sense",
"word": "ไร้สาระ"
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "without sense",
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"word": "saçma sapan"
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{
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"sense": "without sense",
"word": "abuk sabuk"
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"code": "tr",
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"word": "abidik gubidik"
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"word": "אומזיניק"
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