How do you pronounce non-sense?

The recorded pronunciation is /nˈɑnsɛns/.

non-sense

/nˈɑnsɛns/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English

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"At the core of our study is the way each approach can illuminate the process of sense-making by its opposite, which we call "non-sense"."
"something about this passage may have actually affected me, which I know doesn't exactly follow, especially since that would imply something in it really does make sense, and I just got finished calling it non-sense."
"The non-sense syllable HOX is remembered as COCK and the non-sense syllable GAH is remembered as GOAT."

nonsense

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