craziness

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Recent Examples of craziness If anyone remembers the craziness of the MarketWatch IPO, that’s what really got the dot-com movement going and turned a lot of bankers’ heads. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025 Occupying a two-mile run from Beach Boulevard south to the Newport Beach line, State Beach is family friendly and features many of the amenities of its northern neighbor without the volume of crowds, hassles or craziness. Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025 On Maura’s plan to protect people’s vaccines against Robert Kennedy’s craziness, crickets. Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2025 The craziness is visceral — a combination of pounding music, billowing smoke, crackling barbecues and revving engines. Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025 Director Nisha Ganatra jollies it along, with editor Eleanor Infante making as much rhythmic sense of the mix-ups and physical craziness as possible. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025 Ganatra and Weiss make everything feel a bit mechanical rather than an escalating spiral of craziness, and too many scenes play like montage fodder without actually taking the plot anywhere. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for craziness
Noun
  • Following his arrest, Gein was charged with first-degree murder, but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But beneath the insanity, there's real heart, pathos, and vulnerability.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Against the backdrop of New York’s Hudson Valley, the film explores faith, madness, autonomy, and the fragile boundary between salvation and delusion.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There’s only madness at the bottom of that picture.
    Kate Colby October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The pieces serve as grounding tools, a nod to simplicity in design but layered with weighty symbolism.
    Essence, Essence, 1 Oct. 2025
  • With its combination of simplicity, stability, and cost-efficiency, the kirigami parachute may soon find its place in both relief missions and advanced aerospace tests.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ohio is another absurdity, used to describe something strange, weird, or cringey.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The absurdity of the situation began to dawn on me, and a round of giggles began building inside.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Craziness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/craziness. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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