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insanity

[in-san-i-tee] / ɪnˈsæn ɪ ti /


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Companies can spark temporary insanity by just saying some magic words.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

This allows events to balloon beyond our comprehension, and may be preventing us from stopping this insanity.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 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

Others have been declared not guilt by reason of insanity, while others are in conservatorship.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

He began to worry at the things he saw dancing before him, wondered if this revelation had been the final push that sent him over the cliff of insanity.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner




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