lunatic
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Ireland's police chief at the time, Drew Harris blamed the rioting on a "lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology".
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
"The city is going to bear the scars of this lunatic for a really long time."
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Ionesco’s brand of absurdism is indebted to classic French farce, which is redeployed in lunatic fashion to lampoon the nonsensical nature of human existence.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
“A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the president gave an appropriate and unambiguous response,” said Steven Cheung, White House communications director.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
It was a long three-storeyed stone building that looked rather like a private lunatic asylum, and in front of it lay the playing- fields with their three football pitches.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
He is the one figure in the story who learns something: How to survive among lunatics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
We might not be capable of atrocities, but in our dreams we’re all occasionally raving lunatics, giving vent to feelings we keep buried away in the light of day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
The “founders and VCs” here are the miners and early buyers who picked up bitcoin at $10, $100, $1,000 — and held on while the rest of us called them lunatics.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 17, 2025
"It's not my fault that some lunatics use this as a stage to do things which I expressly do not support," he tells me.
From BBC ● May 8, 2024
How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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