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48 min: Polanski is booked for a preposterous challenge on Pilar.

Their defending was a joke, Alex Song was sent off for a preposterous elbow on Mandzukic and Benoît Assou-Ekotto headbutted his own team-mate, Benjamin Moukandjo.

I drained the dehumidifer in my mildewed hotel room, then thought of OSIRIS-REx tucked dry at the top of its rocket, a tiny vessel for a preposterous number of hopes and anxieties and unanswered questions.

Croatia have won 4-0 due in no small part to the idiocy of Alexandre Song, who was sent off in the first off for a preposterous show of petulance.

It has not gained critical traction over time but is recognised for a preposterous plot that sees Swayze facing off against a series of goons hired by Ben Gazzara's corrupt mobster Brad Wesley, who wants to continue extorting businesses in the town of Jasper, west Missouri.

I wish I had stopped her to find out exactly what she meant; Cuba has been under a US economic embargo for a preposterous 50 years, and just hopping on a flight to Havana is not an option.

Molly, meanwhile, is coping with her own irritation by preparing lunch from a preposterous recipe for a Russian fish pie called a coulibiac.

But the show always revolved around Mr. Keeshan, who began to call himself Captain Kangaroo after someone fashioned an outsized jacket for him, a preposterous affair with pockets rivaling kangaroos' pouches.

For my money (a preposterous phrase for a critic to use), the most joyous cut on the record is "Chi Passa per 'Sta Strada," an ad hoc arrangement of a 16th-century street song, in which the entry of Wu Tong's sheng -- an ancient Chinese mouth organ -- is as jarring, and then as tonic, as a Renaissance traveler's first taste of tea.

On Wednesday night, before a raucous crowd at Oracle Arena, the Warriors broke the Chicago Bulls' regular season record for wins, finishing a preposterous 73-9.

Les Sealey's Manchester United career was defined by cup finals: there were four in just 55 games for the club, a preposterous and possibly unparalleled ratio.