How to Use hypervigilance in a Sentence

hypervigilance

noun

• Those who live with their abusers may be in a state of hypervigilance, increasingly alert as the threat of abuse looms.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 12 July 2020
• Starr greeted me with a light fist bump, in keeping with his hypervigilance about avoiding germs.
  — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
• A lot of us have had this blanket of constant awareness or hypervigilance.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2021
• And being here means adapting to hypervigilance against the virus.
  — Calvin Woodward, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
• But the hypervigilance needed to code-switch can take a sharp toll and is linked to higher rates of stress and burnout, Durkee said.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
• In other sectors, such hypervigilance might seem like overkill, even paranoia.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 May 2024
• In these videos and among their spectators, there’s a hypervigilance about the appearance of flavor.
  — Jenny G. Zhang, Bon Appétit, 23 Aug. 2022
• Paranoia and hypervigilance is apparently all in a day’s work for the people who work in this department.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
• Working through this issue with his dog by his side greatly has decreased his anxiety and hypervigilance symptoms.
  — Shauna Springer, CNN, 13 May 2021
• Anxiety, hypervigilance, and panic in the days, weeks, or months following the birth are just some of the symptoms of birth trauma.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• Jansen was unaccustomed to such hypervigilance in the students there.
  — Rowan Ricardo Phillips, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• Even among adults, the extreme conditions create a hypervigilance that can never completely be turned off.
  — Amy Ettiinger, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• My wife and daughter’s presence, however, had put me in a state of man-dad hypervigilance, with my limbic system on primordial high alert.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 2 July 2019
• Anxiety, hypervigilance, avoidance, and fear are all trauma symptoms that linger long after the danger has passed.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2021
• One way to do counter doomscrolling and other forms of hypervigilance, experts say, is to turn off the news and avoid your social media feed for at least a few hours every single day.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Oct. 2020
• When prolonged, these emotions result in hypervigilance, creating a chronic state of fear, tension and dis-ease.
  — Dr. Jacqueline A. Hart, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
• Your comment about your wife’s hypervigilance and fault-finding being her way of coping with her anxieties is perceptive.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2020
• With fears growing of saboteurs already infiltrating the city, a sense of hypervigilance has descended on Kyiv.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2022
• Adults, too, are struggling with symptoms of anxiety like insomnia, hypervigilance and avoidance.
  — Renee Ghert-Zand, sun-sentinel.com, 14 July 2021
• Personal protective equipment was always worn and the hypervigilance never turned off.
  — Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 Dec. 2020
• The symptoms range from nightmares to reliving the event to feelings of guilt and hopelessness or of hypervigilance, meaning constantly being on guard for future threats.
  — Ian H. Stanley, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025
• Either way, the constant hypervigilance of a painful, visible health condition can quickly leave you feeling depleted.
  — Ashley Abramson, Allure, 7 Feb. 2022
• Her grandmother’s hypervigilance and obsession with survival places a burden on Nora that the latter can’t carry.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2022
• But on an individual level, questions linger, ones heightened by 16 months of hypervigilance.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2021
• These effects may include shock, fear, hypervigilance, difficulty sleeping and a mental replaying of the images.
  — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Symptoms of this condition can include vivid memories of the fires, nightmares, hypervigilance or avoidance of anything that reminds someone of the event, Alpert said.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 11 Jan. 2025
• These include hypervigilance, emotional numbness, vivid dreaming or nightmares and flashbacks.
  — Sophie Wilkinson, refinery29.com, 10 June 2020
• Visconti’s work life was not only contributing to health issues, but also to a rise in stress and hypervigilance, which significantly impacted her quality of life.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• Stress, hypervigilance and mental health Among the most harmful and enduring impacts of immigration enforcement are the effects on mental health.
  — William D. Lopez, The Conversation, 18 Feb. 2026
• For some, being taken by surprise by such imagery can ultimately cause ongoing hypervigilance, particularly in regard to their phone.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 27 Oct. 2022