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
Since Willis's diagnosis with dementia in 2023, Moore has been a steady presence in her ex-husband's life, often showing up for family events.
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Meg Walters, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
Allie, suffering from dementia, is in a care center.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
Afflicted with dementia, Anna’s mother, Alice (Crystal Fox), has languished in her daughter’s absence.
—Judy Berman, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
Makary said this during a recent press conference announcing that the FDA would, inexplicably, remove the black box warning on menopausal hormone therapy products that warned that these drugs could increase the risk of breast cancer, dementia, and heart attacks.
—Patricia Bencivenga, STAT, 8 Jan. 2026
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Meg Walters, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
Allie, suffering from dementia, is in a care center.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
Afflicted with dementia, Anna’s mother, Alice (Crystal Fox), has languished in her daughter’s absence.
—Judy Berman, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
Makary said this during a recent press conference announcing that the FDA would, inexplicably, remove the black box warning on menopausal hormone therapy products that warned that these drugs could increase the risk of breast cancer, dementia, and heart attacks.
—Patricia Bencivenga, STAT, 8 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dementia
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Howze, who has schizophrenia, was also able to escape the hospital following the incident, only to be return a few days later wearing a visitor’s pass with a fake name.—
Colleen Cronin,
Boston Herald,
12 Jan. 2026
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The film, adapted from a 2017 Los Angeles Times story about Hang by Frank Shyong, stars Lucy Liu as Irene, who is trying to keep her son Joe’s (Lawrence Shou) schizophrenia diagnosis secret from the other parents in her Asian American community because of a taboo around mental health issues.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
9 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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Vertical farming Conventional agriculture faces increasing pressure from climate instability, water scarcity, and transportation emissions.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Jan. 2026
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But its primary concern with instability in Iran is likely the risk of unrest in its neighbor’s Kurdish regions, which Ankara fears could spill across the border and reignite separatist sentiment.—
Jeremy Diamond,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Dementia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dementia. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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