sanely

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It’s not too soon for Americans to start thinking about how to elect a president who can talk sanely and confidently about how we’re going to survive this future.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

In an apparent reference to this controversial past, Twitter owner Elon Musk joked on Monday "thank goodness they're so sanely run".

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2023

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality,” wrote Shirley Jackson in the first line of her 1959 horror novel The Haunting of Hill House.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2023

Over about 2 hours 20 minutes, Hall, Bates and D’Amato ran alongside one another, basked in cheers and smiled with greater frequency than most anyone running 26.2 miles would sanely dare.

From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2022

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson