Living in a high-crime area can create a siege mentality.
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Nobody does a siege mentality like Leeds United, though.—Beren Cross, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025 The Giants, with their ownership’s decades-long siege mentality over territorial rights in the South Bay, had a role to play in this final result.—Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 18 Aug. 2024 The United States must drop its siege mentality on immigration and start to understand it as a complex regional problem.—Shannon K. O’Neil, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024 Amid a rash of brazen burglaries this year, some San Francisco residents are adopting a siege mentality.—Anna Buchmann, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020 See All Example Sentences for siege mentality
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