NON SEQUITURS Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

non sequiturs

noun

plural of non sequitur

as in remarks

a statement that is not connected in a logical or clear way to anything said before it We were talking about the new restaurant when she threw in some non sequitur about her dog.

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Recent Examples of non sequiturs The non sequiturs, or seeming non sequiturs (like Carol moonlighting as a baseball umpire despite having little knowledge of baseball) abound. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026 Brown kept getting sidetracked with tangents and non sequiturs, on topics both momentous and random. — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2026 These sequences can be beguilingly attractive, but their inclusions are complete non sequiturs — blink-and-you’ll-miss-it digressions toward a more engaging film. — Blake Simons, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2026 Tracy’s dialogue, though absent the staccato non sequiturs of the director’s earlier work, has a bracing nastiness; every visual flourish and every menacing thrum of the score, by Jerskin Fendrix, escalates the intensity of Stone and Plemons’s bravura showdown. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025 Long before Neeson would inherit the detective badge and a full clip of non sequiturs, Paramount announced Ed Helms would be taking on the Drebin role in 2013 with writers behind the Night at the Museum movies providing a script to revitalize the Naked Gun franchise. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025

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Noun

His latest remarks further solidify the central bank's hawkish position.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Fed chair to speak in Wyoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh will deliver remarks this morning in Jackson Hole, Wyoming at an annual symposium.

— Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of remarks

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With age not on his side, there was clear frustration in Fernandes’ post-match comments after Saturday’s awful 2-0 defeat at Hull City.

— Andy Mitten, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
The comments came after uptown food vendors were temporarily restricted from operating after midnight in June following an increase in late-night violence, CharlotteFive reported.

— Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of comments

Noun

That capability could provide surgeons with additional feedback during complex procedures.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
The council could review that data and listen to community feedback on how the enforcement was handled, then decide whether to make a more permanent change to city ordinance.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of feedback

Noun

The Arctic is also a world in flux, and van den Bemd is careful not to present personal observations as scientific conclusions.

— Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Later experiments at the Beijing Spectrometer and Belle in Japan supported its existence, but all of those observations came from collisions between electrons and positrons.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of observations

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Why This is More Important Than Ever Presidents have always been able to move markets, but modern communications have magnified that power.

— Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
In addition, the parliamentarian refers to the appropriate committee legislation from the other chamber, communications from other branches of government and state and local governments, and petitions from private citizens.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026

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