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lunacy

[loo-nuh-see] / ˈlu nə si /


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Beware the three Ls: leverage, liquidity and lunacy.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 7, 2025

“Bloodline” reminds me of the breed of darkly comic postwar novels by Robert Coover, William H. Gass, Harry Crews and others, in which regional manias stand in for a broader national lunacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 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

“Sal, do you detect any signs of lunacy? There doesn’t ap-pear to be any place he could be hiding a gun. His jeans are really tight. Maybe he has a knife tucked into his socks.”

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech




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