crazy person
Example Sentences
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“As far as I can tell, a crazy person tried to break in by hammering the windows. I’m grateful to the secret service and the Cincinnati police for responding quickly.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
To laugh, like an only slightly crazy person.
From New York Times • May 22, 2024
“You can always just hope to get some victim-blaming crazy person on the jury who holds out.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024
Cohen also said prosecutors showed a document Bankman-Fried wrote to try to resolve a dispute between two colleagues only to imply that he is "some sort of crazy person."
From Reuters • Oct. 23, 2023
More astonishing, perhaps, was the fact that time travel hadn’t broken my brain; that by some miracle, I had not yet devolved into a gibbering crazy person ranting on a street corner.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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