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What's being asked for is preposterous in the time available.
As a matter of international law such a policy is preposterous.
The project was not so preposterous, if they had gone no further.
To many people in the industry, this would seem preposterous.
But was it more preposterous than what had happened to me?
They should have known that a story so preposterous had to be true.
And in light of the fact that he'd just met the woman, the whole idea seemed preposterous.
It seemed preposterous to think that he might ever return.
I could tell he found it almost preposterous that we might have something significant in common.
A. It is absolutely preposterous the story they have put out.
When would he ever be ready for such a preposterous mission?
And yet still I find the idea of religion more preposterous.
And he knew that as a private project it was preposterous.
Here on the moon the cost of everything is preposterous!
It was preposterous, of course, to think that anything could come between them.
A few years ago, teachers here said, the notion would have seemed preposterous.
Another thing, you told her something in confidence, which is even more preposterous.
He laughed as if this was the most preposterous idea.
Instead, the people around him think he is silly and preposterous.
Within a week they'd be off into something else equally preposterous.
The question, preposterous at the time, has a more compelling reason to be asked now.
But there were those who did not find the Government's charges preposterous.
Of course he knows that their behavior - and his own - is also preposterous.
Once, it was preposterous to think that a woman could become the editor of the Times.
Her mother laughed as if that were the most preposterous thing she'd ever heard.