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Recent Examples of lunacy But legitimate criticism has often been lost in spiteful lunacy. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Oct. 2024 With all this lunacy, your show can also hit tender moments so well — like when Charles and Doreen make amends. Jim Halterman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024 In a market crowded with hundreds of thousands of coins—including those belonging to Azalea and her celebrity peers—meme-coin creators are being driven to stunts of an ever-escalating lunacy to try to get people to choose their coin instead. Joel Khalili, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2024 The lunacy of that move and its aftershocks brought Wall Street’s fear gauge, the VIX , to a 52-week high of 65.73 intraday, another insane collaterally thoughtless metric that alternately scared some and made others feel the whole thing is overdone. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for lunacy 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunacy
Noun
  • Read more Luigi Mangione case has 'Highest risk' of jury nullification—legal analyst Will Luigi Mangione's insanity defense work?
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Einstein never said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Heming Willis, who has become a vocal advocate for the caregiver community since Willis' frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, also posted a tribute to Moore on her Instagram stories.
    Luke Chinman, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Shannon Amos was not able to provide documentation of a diagnosis of dementia.
    Elizabeth Maline, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The owner assured them there was a method to her madness.
    Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The original Caligari, in which a mysterious doctor and his fortune-telling somnambulist commit a series of murders and drive two young people to madness, is often regarded as a critique of Germans’ blind obedience to tyrannical authority during the First World War.
    Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The intrigue: The reports of drones have sparked an Orson-Welles-reminiscent hysteria on social media, and the theories have been both far-ranging and, in some cases, far-fetched.
    Avery Lotz, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
  • This type of yellow press is pathetic, and the ongoing media hysteria around AI is an embarrassment to the field of journalism as a profession.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Corbet’s awkward forcing of his characters into his conceptual framework leads to absurdities and vulgarities—not least in the depiction of László’s first and only Black acquaintance, a laborer named Gordon (Isaach De Bankolé), as a heroin addict.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Now Warning Issued To All iPhone Users The Game Awards 2024 Live Winners List, And Game Of The Year Such then is the delicate balance of accessibility and exclusivity, creativity and commerciality, genius and absurdity.
    Lilian Raji, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Secondly, the industry has perpetuated a culture that values simplicity and tradition over modernization.
    Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Minimalist cocktails will remain popular, focusing on simplicity while delivering complex flavors.
    Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Lunacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunacy. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.

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