as in mind
the normal or healthy condition of the mental abilities
these working conditions are threatening my sanity!
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Recent Examples of sanity
Surprised, the team performed a sanity check—the researchers calculated heritability in the traditional way for twins born between 1900 and 1935, an era when rapid medical advances steadily curtailed premature death.
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Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
Indeed, accepting its finitude is a crucial step toward sanity, freedom, and happiness.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
Friends question her sanity and stability, and Helen loses herself further inside her mounting grief.
—Adam Graham, Boston Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
As with so much about college football, where self-interest reigns and sanity is scarce, the outcome isn’t ideal but could have been much, much worse.
—Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
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Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
Indeed, accepting its finitude is a crucial step toward sanity, freedom, and happiness.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
Friends question her sanity and stability, and Helen loses herself further inside her mounting grief.
—Adam Graham, Boston Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
As with so much about college football, where self-interest reigns and sanity is scarce, the outcome isn’t ideal but could have been much, much worse.
—Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for sanity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanity
mind
Noun
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Naumov doesn’t enter with the same pressure as Malinin but has already exceeded expectations in his mind.—
Greg Rosenstein,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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For the launch colorway, a vivid graphic may initially bring to mind heat maps with its application of blue, green, yellow and red — but the choice was actually made to invoke a temporal fold, a theoretical concept of bending spacetime to move faster than the speed of light.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Sanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanity. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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