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Originally Posted by DamianJ
No, not quite, here's some examples to try and help you understand
Example: A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.
Example: An ambulance driver goes to a nightime bike accident scene and runs over the accident victim because the victim has crawled to the center of the road with their bike.
"It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, launder became a dirty word."
(William Zinsser)
"I'm aware of the irony of appearing on TV in order to decry it."
(Sideshow Bob, The Simpsons)
An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died the next day... of chronic emphysema from inhalation of the latex particles scratched off decades' worth of lottery tickets.
HTH
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It's ironic that you have not been committed