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He seems to resent the fact that Obama took credit for the raid and at one point even resisted signing a framed flag for him, on the now-preposterous grounds that he didn't want his identity revealed.

Three men look through a skyscraper window and see the preposterous chasm of Ground Zero.

The idea that a seasoned, Republican-appointed jurist was unfit to hear the case, and that his decision should be set aside on flimsy ethics grounds, is preposterous.

We suspend our disbelief in the most preposterous plots precisely because of that grounding in photographed reality, a documented truth, that is the definition of the medium.

Though these films are indisputably preposterous, Mr. Baker's ever-present interest in realistically grounding his tales is nonetheless detectable.

That South Africa's first patch of common ground might be a rugby field was preposterous on the face of it.

To anyone who has seen a tornado's funnel-shaped cloud, it seems preposterous to suggest that tornadoes reach up from the ground.

Airliners previously informed of military exercise & instructed of procedures 3/3   In a series of tweets, he said: "Preposterous allegations by @MailOnline regarding UK plane 'avoiding Egyptian missile' in August are completely inaccurate… incident involved ground-to-ground fire exercise in military base few km off Sharm airport, no ground-to-air firing involved whatsoever.

Preposterous allegations by @MailOnline regarding UK plane 'avoiding Egyptian missile' in August are completely inaccurate 1/3 Incident involved GROUND-TO-GROUND fire exercise in military base few km off Sharm airport, no ground-to-air firing involved whatsoever 2/3 Egypt & UK govs fully aware that plane was in no danger.

Surely, it would be a little preposterous to claim that, in February of 1917, Lenin's Bolshevik party snatched the power in Russia directly from Nicholas II, on the grounds that considering any intermediate between the two systems would violate parsimony.

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