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Recent Examples of delirium Basically, delirium is the result of a neurochemical commotion. Michael Erard, Big Think, 14 Feb. 2025 For other family members, some meaning needs to be made from the delirium. Michael Erard, Big Think, 14 Feb. 2025 Despite its prevalence, doctors don’t reliably recognize delirium. Michael Erard, Big Think, 14 Feb. 2025 Conventional logic is futile here, underscoring the film’s dread and delirium. Beatrice Loayza, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for delirium
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Noun
  • The dampened investor mood over AI — relative to the frenzy over the theme in 2024, at least — doesn’t reflect the priorities of companies, which are still spending on AI infrastructure and leveraging the technology to find new revenue streams.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 21 May 2025
  • Today’s tariff frenzy is not really motivated by a concern for military threats, anyway.
    Ben Bayer, Oc Register, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Authorities in North Carolina on April 28 were investigating a shooting rampage on the campus of Elizabeth City State University that left one person dead and six injured.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The change in position underscores the hardened perspective toward the agency under the Trump administration following allegations by Israel that some of the agency staff was involved in the Hamas rampage.
    Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Delirium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delirium. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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