Sentence examples for apparently preposterous from inspiring English sources

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The apparently preposterous British position comes about because, to admit these substances are marketed legitimately, would fundamentally undermine the UK's argument this week for claiming an opt-out from proposed European regulation of "legal highs".

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In the United States a majority of respondents in recent years told pollsters that they believed in angels, while in Europe the issue was apparently considered so preposterous that no one even asked the question.

In 2014, American Idol hosted a performance by the Chainsmokers, a duo who had appeared, apparently from nowhere, with a preposterous, internationally successful novelty dance hit called Selfie.

Obviously this was preposterous.

Just asking that question sucks you into a world that's like Pizzagate on bath salts, a galaxy-brained, 4chan-bred conspiracy theory that has apparently convinced an alarming number of adults that all kinds of preposterous things are true.

Terrible doggerel verse from Robert Lowell; sentimental nonsense from Arthur Schlesinger; a preposterous exercise in pre- Hitler Diary" absurdity from a Hugh Trevor-Ropre- Hitlerntly convinceDiaryt the murder wabsurditypiracy.

Many of these shows fell victim to antihero fatigue and were axed but some survived too long, including the interminably hopeless Prison Break, Dexter, the increasingly preposterous American Horror Story, and most tiresome and unpleasant of all, the apparently indestructible 24.

To most voters, Brussels, with its preposterous farm subsidies, overpaid bureaucrats and incomprehensible institutions, remains remote and apparently unaccountable.

Peter Firth plays the somewhat preposterous Sir Harry Pearce, an enigmatic intelligence chief who appears to go rogue after making a terrible mistake – now apparently on a mission to discover the Tinker-Tailor-type mole in the upper reaches of the service.

Sounds preposterous?

Preposterous, right?

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