insanity
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In June 1982, Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to a psychiatric facility; he was fully released from federal custody in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
An IT specialist working for MI5 on a contract who disclosed intelligence information to a "foreign power" has been found "not guilty by reason of insanity" by an Old Bailey jury.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Regardless of whether you grew up with the show, many episodes of “7th Heaven” have plotlines worth revisiting, if only for their insanity and cultural obsolescence.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
That entire pseudo-event was one one of those blink-and-you-miss-it moments that get drowned out in the endless baying insanity of our collective reality.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
In eighteen nineteen—Rufus was right—it was sheer insanity.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
Vocabulary lists containing insanity
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