Sentence examples for preposterous controversies from inspiring English sources

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The world of e-readers experienced one of its most preposterous controversies this week, when a blogger named Philip Howard noticed that Barnes and Noble's budget electronic edition of Tolstoy's "War and Peace" had searched for and replaced all incidences of the word "kindled" (a variant of the name of Amazon's e-reader, of course, but also a legitimate English word) with the word "Nookd".

The New Yorker

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Sounds preposterous?

The New York Times

Preposterous, right?

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Absolutely preposterous".

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HOW preposterous?

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— seems preposterous.

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How preposterous!

The New York Times - Style

Their accusation is preposterous.

The New York Times

"Preposterous," you say.

The New York Times

2) Preposterous M.P.G.

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It sounds preposterous.

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