lunacy
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Beware the three Ls: leverage, liquidity and lunacy.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2025
But to qualify for the genre itself—and satisfy the base demands of the base—a movie is required to both accelerate toward lunacy and entertain a certain amount of mayhem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
The company’s commedia dell’arte-style shenanigans have a natural elasticity but farcical lunacy snaps when stretched too far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
Is it hard, though, to freeze all the negativity and all the lunacy that has been directed at you?
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
Instead, I shake my head at the thrill running through me at the sheer lunacy of what I’m about to do.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Everyone knows why, another of the lunacies of the most lunatic sport.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2022
Michael’s what I think of as a Gwyneth Paltrow Conservative, in honour of the way the Goop founder’s fringe lunacies create ailments specifically so she can cure you of them.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2019
Their economic model combined the financial lunacies of Ireland and Iceland.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2010
Mr. O’Brien’s comic persona was always lighter and less intimate; he led a new breed of healthily irreverent comedians who mocked show business and its lunacies from the margins.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2010
I take brows to be, properly read, frows, which, I think, is a provincial word for perverse humours; which being, I suppose, not understood, was changed to lunacies.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
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Power Suffix: -acy
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