sane
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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
What kept them sane was talking among themselves about memories of their past lives, Rumyantsev recalled.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Lindsay Foreman says she is keeping sane by reading, doing laps of the prison yard and, when she can, practising yoga.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
So we’ve curated a handful of free wellness activities for the month of May to keep you stretched, sane and grounded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Dr. Pickett himself was a pioneer in the field of working out sane methods of insect control that take full advantage of the predatory and parasitic species.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Before long the two young servants, superior to and saner in every way than their self-absorbed and snobbish employers, are chastely courting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
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
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
Kids traveled from all over the city, north, east, and west, leaving behind their neighborhood skirmishes for a school they hoped might be a little safer, a little saner than the one closer to home.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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Lewis: What’s so funny is that Natalie’s actually maybe the sanest one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
“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
My mother’s sanest position is to wear only the necessary parts of the outfit and leave off the rest.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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