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The phrase "absurd growth" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where growth is perceived as unreasonable or illogical, often in a business or economic context.
Example: "The company's absurd growth over the past year has raised concerns about the sustainability of its business model."
Alternatives: "ridiculous expansion" or "unreasonable increase".
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The absurd growth in beer snobbery in the US perfectly illustrates a common complaint about Americans: they come to the party late, take over the bar and then claim it was their party all along.
Perhaps because of all of the speculation on Facebook's absurd growth over the last year.
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Despite a pretty absurd rate of growth on the public side, no such consistent growth could be found on the early-stage, private end of the market.
Opponents say the notion that property taxes are reduced by residential growth is absurd, since the additional education costs will outstrip revenue.
Mr. Montebourg, considered on the left of President François Hollande's Socialist government, said policies that killed growth were "absurd and dangerous" and had no support among Europe's citizens.
And again, while the stimulus should have been more heavily weighted toward things like aid to state and local governments (which would have prevented cutbacks and immediately injected money into the economy), it's played an important role in returning the U.S. economy to positive growth and, absurd as it sounds, keeping unemployment close to 10 per cent.
The belief that austerity leads to growth is absurd.
Fallacy number one: The notion of perpetual economic growth is absurd on face value because it demands an unbounded supply of natural resources and thus an infinitely large earth.
Not to mention the pork, not-budgeted war debts, Wall Street bailout, and other massive contrivances including both the Wall Street reforms (which do very, very little), and the massive health care cost growth and absurd Health Care reform.
As growth projections go, this sounds absurd.
Contrary to what Tripathi implies; I neither express nor harbour the absurd wish that India return to a 3.5% growth rate in order to reduce growing inequality.
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