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élucubrations

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Definition: wild imaginings

Je ne sais pas où il trouve toutes ces savantes élucubrations - I don't know how he imagines these wild things, where he comes up with this stuff

C'est impossible de prendre au sérieux ses élucubrations - It's impossible to take his wild imaginings seriously

Related: élucubrer - to dream up

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