lunatic
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He got back everything he’s wanted and then a lunatic billionaire is telling you that 100 miles away under the Denver Airport there’s this thing that sounds crazy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
Mr. Gittlitz writes with the lunatic panache of a utopian manifesto or 2000s sports blog.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
That is a deliberate choice, says Tracy, because Teddy is not -- or at least not just -- a lunatic.
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026
Social media can efficiently make any lunatic theory an ineradicable and ever-evolving virus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Some fool noticed this lunatic quality and gave her the task of "boosting morale" among us.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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He is the one figure in the story who learns something: How to survive among lunatics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
The “founders and VCs” here are the miners and early buyers who picked up bitcoin at $10, $100, $1,000 — and held on while the rest of us called them lunatics.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 17, 2025
He added: “I hope at some point we run out because we have gotten rid of all of them, but we’re looking every day for these lunatics that are tearing things up.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
"It's not my fault that some lunatics use this as a stage to do things which I expressly do not support," he tells me.
From BBC ● May 8, 2024
JimmyTrotter shook his head like we were ignorant lunatics.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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