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non sequitur
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  • This non sequitur disoriented Wang.†  (source)
  • The person questioned smiles beatifically and responds in some non sequitur that would make the babble of the Web's worst village idiot seem like sage aphorisms in comparison.†  (source)
  • This is a non sequitur that has been nibbling on the edges of Hiro's mind for the last ten minutes: Laser light has a particular kind of gritty intensity, a molecular purity reflecting its origins.†  (source)
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  • "Indispensable" as strictly applied to captive human beings at Auschwitz would be a non sequitur.†  (source)
  • Non sequiturs often catch the unwary off guard.†  (source)
  • Everyone in the Glass family—Zooey certainly not least—was familiar with this sort of non-sequitur from Mrs. Glass.†  (source)
  • Alfred scolds me, every time we meet; and he has the better of me, I grant,—for he really does something; his life is a logical result of his opinions and mine is a contemptible non sequitur.†  (source)
  • No stream of non sequiturs and jangled prose.†  (source)
  • After saying this I simply cannot tell whether her words make up a non sequitur or not, when she replies in the most desolate voice I've ever heard, "But oh, Stingo, you can't imagine what it's like to grow up in a Jewish family."†  (source)
  • No non sequiturs, three-two, one game all.†  (source)
  • —"Excuse me there, Mr Serjeant," quoth Partridge, "that's a non sequitur."†  (source)
  • You keep talking in non sequiturs.†  (source)
  • I did not mean to abuse the cloth; I only said your conclusion was a non sequitur.†  (source)
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