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wacko

[wak-oh] / ˈwæk oʊ /






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Do you look back at the risks you took, with unusual buildings designed by foreign architects with no experience in China, as wacko now?

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

In April, he was expelled from the House of Commons for calling the prime minister a "wacko".

From BBC Jan. 8, 2025

He also tried to warn other law enforcement agencies, he testified, writing to the Capitol Police that Mr. Rhodes was “a friggin’ wacko that the Oath Keepers would be better without.”

From New York Times Oct. 6, 2022

He’s still a top-10 player when healthy and the Lakers don’t have the luxury of turning away a talent of his caliber, regardless of what a wacko he might be.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2022

He thought maybe he should act a little wacko, so everyone would believe that he’d been freaked out by the notion of being closed in, cut off from the outside world.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

When wackos say this, I pay no attention.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

And it doesn’t matter to the wackos and central planners because to them, having more people die is a good thing.

From Washington Times Nov. 20, 2023

"When we began working on this 12 years ago and talked about plastic fragments in water, people took us for wackos and now it is a recognised problem."

From Reuters Aug. 25, 2023

Now that’s some of the eccentricity all wackos have come to crave, with Pitt 7-1 and would-be-unbeaten were it not for … Western Michigan.

From Washington Post Oct. 24, 2021

Maybe she puts this crumb under there before every new patient to sort out the true wackos.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell




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