sane
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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
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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
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“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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