sane

Aviv describes becoming sane as “a kind of narrative collapse, a confrontation with a personal history that is no longer recognizable.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Yet Forster maintained his equilibrium and held to his admirably sane conception of the human condition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

What kept them sane was talking among themselves about memories of their past lives, Rumyantsev recalled.

From Barron's ● May 8, 2026

Lindsay Foreman says she is keeping sane by reading, doing laps of the prison yard and, when she can, practising yoga.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Before her faceoff with Trump, Kelly was known as one of the saner, smarter voices at Fox News—a notable if not breathtaking accomplishment.

From Slate ● May 6, 2026

Alouette’s attempts to reclaim her work result in her consignment to Salpetrière, a much-dreaded place for the mentally afflicted, where the cruel guards may or may not be saner than the inmates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

In time, I came up with a saner reply: “I’ll keep working,” I’d say, “as long as I can do my job reasonably well.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

A saner, scientific view hails the eye as the second most complex organ in our bodies.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2025

“First, I need a shirt of Gabriel’s. Something he wore often, like a favorite T-shirt or something,” Ms. Kline said in a saner manner than I expected.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

“The sanest way forward — you have to learn how to split yourself up into other selves, like an earthworm,” her mentor advised her years earlier, when she was about to graduate.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2022

“Having a therapist has taught me to be less cruel to myself. It’s not like therapy has made me the world’s sanest person; it’s just made me slightly less insane.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2021

We can look at all of this and hope that our sanest elected officials will use their power to make life better for the whole realm.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2021

In this, Satie was the sanest of eccentrics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2020

He tottered across the roof tiles, spraying his fig trees like it was the safest, sanest procedure in the world.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram