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How to use the word Insanity in a Sentence?

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Between 2012 and 2016, I did so much work on myself to overcome that. And I really felt like, oh, I don’t think I struggle with this anymore, and I was so proud of that. And then when I got the concussions, it felt like a lot of that flooded back, i remember feeling like I’m crazy, like I’m right on the edge of insanity.

Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To seek perfection is to seek insanity, for even nature knows no such thing exists. To pursue it is an exercise in a lasting sense of failure with little reward at the end of the day.

Andreas Simic

added by anonymous
1 year ago

The definition of insanity is decreed far too often by individuals with no proof they themselves are sane.

Meaghan Buisson

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

When insanity is raised as a defense, the jury can return a verdict of guilty, not guilty, not guilty by reason of insanity, or guilty but mentally ill.

Kyle Dugger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With maybe a thousand disturbed people in a state of millions, Cuomo reduced the number of beds so a judge could put an emotionally disturbed person into custodial care. Politicians refuse to expand that. New Yorkers are punished by those they voted into office and are returning us to insanity.

Michael Graae/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The evidence is going to show he met the criteria for legal insanity.

Enrico DeMarco

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I've read too many reports, too many first-person reports from teachers who say,' I can't go on teaching like this because this is insanity what I'm doing in this classroom, separating kids by race and oppressors and non-oppressors. And they're little kids. It is going on.

Bill Maher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For four long years, Americans woke every morning to a fresh barrage of insanity, inanity and insults from the president and his administration. Now, everything is so normal as to be almost boring.

Eugene Robinson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From a landlord’s perspective, from storeowner’s perspective, we’re terrified of this, his policies and what not. Armed robbery of a store is now a petty larceny? What insanity is this? this guy, his rap sheet is a mile long, he should have been behind bars. Assault? Menacing? How is he out? This is outrageous.

Brian Chin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I started fighting against the COVID insanity, as I call it, in March 2020, i was right out of the jump.

Joey Gilbert

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That's where cases break down, if they do appreciate the wrongfulness of what they did, it doesn't meet the legal standard for insanity.

David Raybin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To be left on the side of the road. Sixteen years of age. It's just insanity, there's evil that's behind that, to take a life, a young promising life.

Los Angeles

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Imagine you’re a clerk in a bodega and are the victim of a knife point robbery, not only could the guy not go to jail, he could get charged with a misdemeanor, that is the definition of insanity.

Daniel Bibb

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Competency is different than insanity, or a mental health defect. So, we're not talking about what he did on March 22nd. We're talking about whether he is competent to stand trial right now.

Michael Dougherty

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Going insane is the mind's way of coping with insanity.

Link Starbureiy

added by anonymous
2 years ago

Now fear had begun, a rational response instead of insanity.

Philip K. Dick

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

It is so hard, i never realized how hard it is. It is a full-time job, and I have so much respect now for moms — I always have, but oh my gosh, it's a full-time job. It's insanity. I mean, hats off to anyone who can do it for as long as they can, because it's really, really difficult.

Vincenzo Aloisi/MEGA

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Please stop the insanity. You have already done damage to these kids having to wear masks.

Vivian Hug

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Given everything that's been going on here, it's getting worse and worse and worse, so what we're doing because of the murders going through the roof and the attempted murders, and the lack of leadership and nothing changing – the insanity continues – is we're demanding emergency hearings on our cityhood bills.

Bill White

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's almost like we're facts-based pariahs that are trying to sort of rein in this insanity that's gone on, it does feel lonely sometimes in terms of being the outspoken voice.

Denver Riggleman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is the best that my first object show was Inaminate Insanity. I have no life, it was the best decade of all.

Matcha Mint

added by matchamint
3 years ago

It is the best that my first object show was Inaminate Insanity. I have no life, it was the best decade of all.

Matcha Mint

added by matchamint
3 years ago

In these insane times I've come to realize that insanity is being celebrated more and more. I'm not talking about the ones in the insane asylums, but about those who are continuing to use insane ideas to gain followers.

Thomas Filingeri

added by strikerino
3 years ago

Since June, we have consistently said we would participate in all three debates, under rules that The CPD established. Only the President Donald Trump campaign has been erratic and chaotic in their approach to this, demanding control over the selection of moderators, changes in the dates of the debates, an ear canal inspection rule, and all sorts of other insanity.

Andrew Bates

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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