saner; sanest
1
: proceeding from a sound mind : rational
2
: mentally sound
especially
: able to anticipate and appraise the effect of one's actions
3
: healthy in body
sanely
adverb
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Examples of sane in a Sentence
No sane person could do something so horrible.
Leaving was the only sane option she had.
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Orange voters are more than 59% in favor of allowing the sale at the Fourth of July of safe and sane fireworks.
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Heather McRea, Orange County Register, 6 Nov. 2024
Brown and Iannucci position Patel as one of the saner men in the room, but also one of the only characters who seems to care at all about the comics on which Tecto is based.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
How else does a sane person prepare themselves to cut into another person?
—Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024
The legal system generally presents a binary—sane and guilty, or insane and not—and a not-guilty verdict might seem unconscionable when the victims were innocent children.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Heather McRea, Orange County Register, 6 Nov. 2024
Brown and Iannucci position Patel as one of the saner men in the room, but also one of the only characters who seems to care at all about the comics on which Tecto is based.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
How else does a sane person prepare themselves to cut into another person?
—Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024
The legal system generally presents a binary—sane and guilty, or insane and not—and a not-guilty verdict might seem unconscionable when the victims were innocent children.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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“Sane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sane. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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