lunacy
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Beware the three Ls: leverage, liquidity and lunacy.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2025
“Bloodline” reminds me of the breed of darkly comic postwar novels by Robert Coover, William H. Gass, Harry Crews and others, in which regional manias stand in for a broader national lunacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
The company’s commedia dell’arte-style shenanigans have a natural elasticity but farcical lunacy snaps when stretched too far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
But Schaffer, Mand and Gregor are clearly graduates of the ZAZ school of punch-ups, and their ability to circle back toward police lunacy is classic “Naked Gun.”
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2025
What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
From "1984" by George Orwell
Everyone knows why, another of the lunacies of the most lunatic sport.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2022
Michael’s what I think of as a Gwyneth Paltrow Conservative, in honour of the way the Goop founder’s fringe lunacies create ailments specifically so she can cure you of them.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2019
They are laid bare before us: their means, structure, lunacies and worth.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2013
Mr. O’Brien’s comic persona was always lighter and less intimate; he led a new breed of healthily irreverent comedians who mocked show business and its lunacies from the margins.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2010
"And I thought we ought to give all past vanities and frivolities and lunacies a decent burial."
From The Red Planet by William John Locke
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Power Suffix: -acy
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