sane
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Most sane people believe that needs to be addressed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
But sane regulation depends on sane causal diagnosis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
Those appeared to be the relatively sane ones.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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As a political reporter, I came away from Comic Con with one overriding impression: If world politics were more like the comic book world, reality would be a safer, saner and healthier place.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 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
In time, I came up with a saner reply: “I’ll keep working,” I’d say, “as long as I can do my job reasonably well.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
“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
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
“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
In this, Satie was the sanest of eccentrics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2020
He tottered across the roof tiles, spraying his fig trees like it was the safest, sanest procedure in the world.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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