insanity

Example Sentences

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An IT specialist working for MI5 on a contract who disclosed intelligence information to a "foreign power" has been found "not guilty by reason of insanity" by an Old Bailey jury.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Others have been declared not guilt by reason of insanity, while others are in conservatorship.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

That entire pseudo-event was one one of those blink-and-you-miss-it moments that get drowned out in the endless baying insanity of our collective reality.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

That flying blob of insanity isn’t for everyone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

My parents were in the throes of a nervous breakdown, and I had driven them to the edge of insanity.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi