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sane

[seyn] / seɪn /


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In a sane world he would provide answers that could facilitate greater understanding of his actions and motivations, and how he believes those actions will benefit the American people.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2026

A public interest firm willing to carry the case without charge, because no sane person spends airplane money in legal fees to recover an airplane.

From Slate Jul. 28, 2026

Aviv describes becoming sane as “a kind of narrative collapse, a confrontation with a personal history that is no longer recognizable.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

"No sane person would bring their greatest strength to the negotiating table," it said.

From Barron's Jun. 13, 2026

Because what other love-longing, wife-craving, homesick creature would remain so pacingly calm, so nervously resolute, so crazily sane, as long as Abel had?

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

Before her faceoff with Trump, Kelly was known as one of the saner, smarter voices at Fox News—a notable if not breathtaking accomplishment.

From Slate May 6, 2026

The tournament long known as March Madness has a problem: It has never been saner than it is right now.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

Alouette’s attempts to reclaim her work result in her consignment to Salpetrière, a much-dreaded place for the mentally afflicted, where the cruel guards may or may not be saner than the inmates.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 4, 2026

A saner, scientific view hails the eye as the second most complex organ in our bodies.

From Salon Sep. 18, 2025

“First, I need a shirt of Gabriel’s. Something he wore often, like a favorite T-shirt or something,” Ms. Kline said in a saner manner than I expected.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

“The sanest way forward — you have to learn how to split yourself up into other selves, like an earthworm,” her mentor advised her years earlier, when she was about to graduate.

From Washington Post Sep. 14, 2022

“Having a therapist has taught me to be less cruel to myself. It’s not like therapy has made me the world’s sanest person; it’s just made me slightly less insane.”

From Seattle Times Jul. 14, 2021

We can look at all of this and hope that our sanest elected officials will use their power to make life better for the whole realm.

From Salon Apr. 23, 2021

And he seemed to me to be the sanest person I had ever met.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2019

This is not the sanest way to gain popularity!

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers




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