as in schizophrenia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
doctors were able to treat the patient's dementia with drugs and thus allow him to function on his own
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Recent Examples of dementia
Even his portrayal of a man with advanced dementia, in The Father (2020), which won the Academy Award for Best Actor, emitted a disconcerting power.
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Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Long-term alcohol consumption can lead to serious memory conditions similar to dementia.
—Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 6 Nov. 2025
Craig Hemsworth is one of over 55 million people worldwide living with dementia or Alzheimer's disease.
—Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Nicklaus further argues that O’Brien defamed him by suggesting to company clients that the 85-year-old was exhibiting signs of dementia.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Long-term alcohol consumption can lead to serious memory conditions similar to dementia.
—Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 6 Nov. 2025
Craig Hemsworth is one of over 55 million people worldwide living with dementia or Alzheimer's disease.
—Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Nicklaus further argues that O’Brien defamed him by suggesting to company clients that the 85-year-old was exhibiting signs of dementia.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dementia
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Against that backdrop, Nick was reportedly being treated for schizophrenia before the deaths of his parents.—
Danielle Bacher,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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The mental state of Nick Reiner, who struggled for years with substance abuse and had been prescribed a schizophrenia drug, has now taken center stage in his legal battle.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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She was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006 and was placed in a maximum-security psychiatric center in Texas, where she's resided ever since.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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In addition, only 26% of defendants raising the insanity defense were found not guilty by reason of insanity.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Your mother’s people, her father had told her ominously, on more than one occasion, are prone to hysteria.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
8 Dec. 2025
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The hysteria about a superior race, the insistence that all would be well if one insidious group was purged—those doctrines had been entirely defeated.—
Joan Silber,
New Yorker,
30 Nov. 2025
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But there was some method to the madness here, as UConn, which didn’t take a free throw in the first half, took 18 in the second half and OT.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
8 Jan. 2026
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Ditlevsen writes beautifully, and her sly and specific humor always manages to both undercut and deepen the madness and love in all of her books.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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Yet today, rising geopolitical instability and a wave of economic nationalism threaten to disrupt the free flows of energy the system relies on — all at a moment when cheaper, cleaner alternatives are available.—
John Kerry,
semafor.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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The post 9/11 blunders in which Cheney played a part can be tied to the rise of ISIS, perennial instability in the Middle East, the migrant crisis and the crushing debt burden ($38 trillion and counting) that looms over the US economy.—
Ben Wedeman,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Dementia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dementia. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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