crazy person
Example Sentences
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“As far as I can tell, a crazy person tried to break in by hammering the windows. I’m grateful to the secret service and the Cincinnati police for responding quickly.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
The problem with portraying a negotiator as crazy like a fox is that sometimes the same behavior looks like the actions of someone who is crazy like a crazy person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
He insisted it's "the laugh of a crazy person."
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024
Cohen also said prosecutors showed a document Bankman-Fried wrote to try to resolve a dispute between two colleagues only to imply that he is "some sort of crazy person."
From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2023
More astonishing, perhaps, was the fact that time travel hadn’t broken my brain; that by some miracle, I had not yet devolved into a gibbering crazy person ranting on a street corner.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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