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Recent Examples of insane This insane ruling would have been unthinkable even five years ago. David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025 Continue reading … ORWELL NIGHTMARE – Joe Rogan blasts 'insane' media silence on arrests for social media posts. FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025 The queen greeted this insane question with a politely regal stare, ignored my faux pas, and continued talking about financial inclusion. Ben Smith, semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025 Cleveland also clinched on Saturday, walking it off with a bases loaded hit-by-pitch to cap an insane postseason run. Sam Blum, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for insane
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insane
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  • Whether these experienced hands can keep up with their mad scientists is less clear.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • David’s flagship product is an almost Frankensteinian creation, more mad scientist than culinary.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • This would be an absurd show of force, and totally uncalled for during a government shutdown when members of the military cannot even get a paycheck.
    Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Knightley and Pearce coast and their characters never come alive and resort to doing silly things at this misfire’s absurd, regrettable finale.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • But, God, to be able to play a Pablo Escobar who was just petty and wanted friends, there was something so stupid and so hilarious about that to me.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Keaton continued to play oddballs with a peculiar way of talking, though none were trivial or stupid.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2025
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  • The thunderstorms could also bring excessive rainfall in northern Arkansas, southern Missouri and southern Illinois, bringing a risk of flash flooding, the weather service said.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
  • There are risks of severe thunderstorms and excessive rainfall on Saturday from the Ozarks into the mid-Mississippi River Valley with potential for damaging winds, large hail, tornadoes, and flash flooding.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
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  • Plus, Jeremiah had to still be winded by busting out that extended dance remix of his maniacal villain laugh from back on the beach.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In a desperate attempt to stop The Entity, President Erika Sloane (Angela Bassett) locates Ethan, who is now a rogue agent, and asks him to achieve the impossible by finding a way to shut the maniacal AI down.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • In the film, Credenza runs the bizarre amusement park of Twitlandia alongside her husband — delighting in dirty pranks, filth and cruelty along the way.
    Jane LaCroix, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • However, an anonymous NFL general manager has urged the team to target a bizarre position instead.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The fact that the first two scores of a 43-point final frame — a 2-yard Troy Franklin score for the Broncos and a 41-yard Theo Johnson touchdown for the Giants — each came on deflections might not crack the top five craziest happenings in the final 15 minutes.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In 2023, the Live Wire author offered her Instagram followers a glimpse of the crazy crowds that show up to their door on the spooky holiday.
    Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • Operating at the extreme fringes is also an effective strategy for maximizing exposure in the algorithm, which explains why popular influencers such as the Nelk Boys and Jake Paul started their YouTube careers as prank peddlers, before leaning into more overtly political content.
    T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Caving—which is the more extreme cousin to spelunking—is physically and mentally challenging but also adrenaline fueled and just plain fun, too.
    Heide Brandes, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Insane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insane. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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