derange

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Recent Examples of derange Jack Smith should be considered mentally deranged, and he should be thrown out of the country. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024 Written in black and white, the attacks look deranged. Oliver Darcy, CNN, 31 May 2023 But in her new album Workin’ on a World, that goodness is now deranged. Armond White, National Review, 28 Apr. 2023 Clearly, he is deranged. Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for derange
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Verb
  • No doubt, climate change threatens to muck it all up, disturbing patterns that have existed for centuries.
    Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
  • This tactic—arresting judges for their courtroom decisions—has disturbing echoes in other countries where judicial independence has been undermined: in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey, and in other places where democracy has given way to executive supremacy.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • When someone has it, their immune system goes into overdrive, producing more antibodies (or immunoglobulins, hence the name) than necessary that disrupt typical organ function.
    David Oliver, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Case in point: Heightened uncertainty about the outlook for the economy has disrupted plans for big-name IPOs like fintech firm Klarna and ticketing platform StubHub over the past month.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow was popular enough that fans wanted a solo story, but the studio didn't bother to make it until her character was already dead in the major timeline, then skipped the theatrical release, which Johansson sued them about.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2025
  • So much so that Gillaspie didn’t bother to even grab a towel last summer when a pitching coach yelled into the visiting showers to alert him that Triple-A El Paso manager Pete Zamora needed to see him.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • And when the series takes an occasional serious turn, you'll just be confused.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 2 May 2025
  • However, simply getting older doesn’t equate to consistently missing bills or appointments, having a hard time speaking with people, or feeling lost or confused in places that are familiar to you.
    Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 1 May 2025
Verb
  • Amorim’s personnel changes unbalanced an already fragile team.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The land turns from a carbon sink into a carbon source, further unbalancing our planet’s carbon cycle.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Some unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store, got in my face today.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Nuggets superstar center Nikola Jokic was unhinged in the contest, scoring a career-high 61 points, along with 10 rebounds, 10 assists, and two steals.
    Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Too often, however, the temptation to blame individuals or groups for housing ills distracts from the actual debate and prevents all stakeholders from discovering their mutual interests.
    Matt Frazier, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The scientists now plan on developing the technology further, which will include boosting its ability to filter out distracting background noises such as those produced by body movements.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Jalen Brunson endured physical play in the Knicks’ 100-94 Game 2 loss to the Detroit Pistons at Madison Square Garden on Monday, alarming fans with another brief but unsettling late-game exit.
    C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • And while terrifying movies are typically critic-proof at the box office, audiences tend to leave the theater feeling unsettled, which translates to poor exit polls.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Derange.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/derange. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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