How to Use paranoia in a Sentence

paranoia

noun

• I had to admit that my fears were just paranoia.
• She was diagnosed with delusional paranoia.
• The fifth song off the singer’s new album Guts is cheeky and steeped in self-loathing and paranoia.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2023
• The battle lines are drawn, the paranoia is growing, and the barbs are flying.
  — Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
• And the paranoia and suspicion that would arise out of that would be TV gold.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2023
• So paranoia is a self that is terrorized and small and naked and afraid.
  — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
• In this case, the paranoia over TikTok may be justified – at least to a point.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• As fiction about the pandemic keeps trickling in, even the lighter books have a sense of gloom and paranoia.
  — Lisa Levy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• His father, David Arkin, an artist and writer, lost his job as a teacher amid the paranoia of the Red Scare.
  — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 30 June 2023
• The issue roiled the country, though most did not share Esper’s paranoia.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• And this form of paranoia is not limited to any one country.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 19 June 2023
• In that respect, Shyamalan has tapped right into the paranoia of our age.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
• Delta 8, on the other hand, is said to produce a milder high, with less anxiety and paranoia.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• There’s a lot more surveillance paranoia in this one, no?
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• On Tuesday, Roberts argued that paranoia toward the Dodgers is overblown.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• No more shadow depth charts, cakes or practice-video paranoia.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• And in a revamped final scene, Shields bears down on the harm done to women by male paranoia, the cure for which must be liberation.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• While some of this might be about buying a cute keychain for a wallet, there’s a deeper paranoia that cash stuffing speaks to.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 12 May 2023
• With all the unsettling talk these days about AI, this particular species of villainy lends the film a new-style dose of pulp paranoia.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2023
• There were some kiddos for whom nothing worked to assuage the paranoia; in a small town, everything is a trigger.
  — Men's Health, 28 Nov. 2022
• But the novelty of quiet quitting soon wore off and was replaced by paranoia.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 11 July 2023
• If only paranoia about being replaced by non-humans had stayed within the confines of the plot.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 21 June 2023
• As paranoia eased, women began to come back to work at Jane, determined to carry on.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
• Remember not to approach life with paranoia; discernment is not meant to be a scary thing.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2022
• And Black men in hip-hop exist in an endless loop of roller-coaster success, hazy self-worth, bullets, fame and its cousin, paranoia.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 8 Aug. 2023
• As a person addicted to meth for 11 years, my poor choices led to extreme paranoia.
  — Ed Kressy, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• Some even formed small attack teams that picked off Russian soldiers at night, making the fear and paranoia that settled over the city two-sided.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022
• On the right, he was constantly confronted with a strain of racial paranoia that painted his very presence as a threat to the proverbial American way.
  — Janell Ross, Time, 3 Jan. 2023
• Enhancing this crippling cocktail of mourning and paranoia is the nature of Living+ itself(*), which is more about the opposite of the product’s name.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2023
• And for as cautious as pressured coyotes can be, the presence of wolves only increases their paranoia.
  — David Zeug, Outdoor Life, 22 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024