"patent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Never mind the patent absurdity of a piece of furniture that once positioned could never be moved again.
- Is he offering this patent absurdity about the Jews' returning to Beirut because everyone here knows I'm Jewish and my claim to be otherwise is making the rounds as a joke?
- Liberals think "it doesn't work" has such a nice ring to it that the patent absurdity of what they're saying should not detract from their argument.
- It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak another vernacular, in the next house so to speak.
- Aristotle has always been eminently attackable and eminently attacked throughout history, and shooting down Aristotle's patent absurdities, like shooting fish in a barrel, didn't afford much satisfaction.
- Yet we have been caught in this particular spin so long and so deeply that we do not grasp the patent absurdity of our traditional argument.
- Edward Alexander writes that the refugee figures are "a patent absurdity," since "the entire population" of the area "is under 500,000."
- Thousands of messages were old ideas rehashed, or patent absurdities, or probable lies.
- Teddy blushed at the patent absurdity of what he had just said.
- Several examples of patent absurdity have been in the news lately.
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