sane
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Most sane people believe that needs to be addressed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
But sane regulation depends on sane causal diagnosis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
In a sane world he would provide answers that could facilitate greater understanding of his actions and motivations, and how he believes those actions will benefit the American people.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
A public interest firm willing to carry the case without charge, because no sane person spends airplane money in legal fees to recover an airplane.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
He was my father, but I was not sure whether he was sane.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
Is there a chance that saner heads will prevail?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Dispatches from a saner time of millennial life like “Up Down” and “Can’t Believe It” landed like an envelope of Instax photos from a half-remembered house party.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
While we cannot know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified rather than suppressed, we can raise our own voices now to demand a safer, saner future.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2025
Indira, with the saner follow-up: “Dorothy, don’t get in the fight.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2024
Maybe old Mary and her herbs weren’t such a bad idea after all—if I could be sure of catching her in one of her saner moments.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
“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
And he seemed to me to be the sanest person I had ever met.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2019
Some days I think I’m crazy to have done this; other times that it’s the sanest move I’ve made in years.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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