sane
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Most sane people believe that needs to be addressed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
She was the only person who acted sane and brave that night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
I frighten him, as a madwoman frightens those who believe themselves sane.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
It’s a concept borrowed from restaurant service — those end-of-night tasks that set you up for a smoother, saner start the next day — and it immediately appealed to me.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
Is there a chance that saner heads will prevail?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Dispatches from a saner time of millennial life like “Up Down” and “Can’t Believe It” landed like an envelope of Instax photos from a half-remembered house party.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
Indira, with the saner follow-up: “Dorothy, don’t get in the fight.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2024
I was also thinking that, as cooler observers around me had been cautioning, it would probably be saner, cheaper, and easier for Jesse to try for the University of Illinois in the fall.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
This submission, he tells us, was the “ultimate loss of control and the sanest thing I ever did.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
“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
Wakefield What happens when the sanest person working in a psych ward starts to lose his grip?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
And they remind us that sometimes the sanest means of processing sorrow and fear is to find ways to joke about them.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2021
This is not the sanest way to gain popularity!
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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