lunatic
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Ireland's police chief at the time, Drew Harris blamed the rioting on a "lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology".
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
It was reminiscent for this viewer of 2008’s “Food Inc.,” which took a deep dive into the techniques of farmer Joel Salatin, the self-proclaimed “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
"The city is going to bear the scars of this lunatic for a really long time."
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
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
At last he spluttered, “The Quibbler? That lunatic rag of Xeno Lovegood’s?”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Fatboy Slim knew what to expect from the people he was playing to: "They're lunatics," he joked, lovingly.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
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
“Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa,” Rubio told reporters last month.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025
Later, as Florida lay in bed listening to the wail of the freight train passing through Boxton, she thought about the old lunatics and about going down a river in a boat.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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