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as in dementia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
given powerful drugs to treat his derangement
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as in disruption
an act or instance of the order of things being disturbed
the derangement of the carefully organized event by a single freak accident
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Recent Examples of derangement
Call this his civil-rights derangement syndrome.
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Howard L. Simon, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
Age and bitterness appear to have compounded the narcissism and egomania to produce derangement.
—Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2026
Now, after having been canceled and reborn, the show has lost its signature sense of derangement, and there’s something a little sad about that.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Boycotting the Arts to show you support the Arts is a form of derangement syndrome.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 Dec. 2025
President doubled down on criticism What is 'Trump derangement syndrome' about?
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
Teddy’s reasoning is a confusion of save-the-world alarmism, garden-variety derangement, unhealed trauma, and single-minded revenge.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
The great derangement The Indian government has ignored numerous pleas to reconsider and abandon the project and instead moved to change the facts on the ground.
—M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Tourism is a wonderful spectacle of mass derangement.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
Howard L. Simon, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
Age and bitterness appear to have compounded the narcissism and egomania to produce derangement.
—Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2026
Now, after having been canceled and reborn, the show has lost its signature sense of derangement, and there’s something a little sad about that.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Boycotting the Arts to show you support the Arts is a form of derangement syndrome.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 Dec. 2025
President doubled down on criticism What is 'Trump derangement syndrome' about?
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
Teddy’s reasoning is a confusion of save-the-world alarmism, garden-variety derangement, unhealed trauma, and single-minded revenge.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
The great derangement The Indian government has ignored numerous pleas to reconsider and abandon the project and instead moved to change the facts on the ground.
—M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Tourism is a wonderful spectacle of mass derangement.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for derangement
Noun
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All of this creates new pathways between the brain’s neurons, improving cerebral neuroplasticity and preventing neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia.—
Alessandra Signorelli,
Vogue,
29 May 2026
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She is left to care for her partner’s elderly mom who battles Parkinson’s and dementia.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
28 May 2026
Noun
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But his anger appeared to extend beyond the disruption caused by the repairs.—
Zahra Ullah,
CNN Money,
7 June 2026
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For them, the closure of Hormuz is not an abstract disruption to global trade.—
John W.H. Denton AO,
Fortune,
6 June 2026
Noun
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Adair Fish pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity on May 4, a spokesperson with the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office said.—
Laura Bauer
June 2,
Kansas City Star,
2 June 2026
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The Dutchman pleaded guilty to the murder charges, claiming temporary insanity.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
30 May 2026
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Shine was found by patrol officers who responded to a disturbance at a home on Papaya Farms Road in Pāhoa on Monday, according to police.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
1 June 2026
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Officers determined that the dog belonged to the man and woman involved in the original disturbance and arrested the woman on charges of felony domestic violence and felony assault with a deadly weapon.—
Velvet Wu
June 1,
Sacbee.com,
1 June 2026
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How then to escape this hysteria?—
Jonathan Odden,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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But Pressure is less a war story, rapt with the hysteria of battlefield deeds, than an intense exposition on the human capacity to tolerate uncertainty at a time when decisiveness is an imperative for action.—
Daniel Jonah Wolpert,
NPR,
29 May 2026
Noun
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As the saying goes, there is no great genius without some touch of madness.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
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Some families came from beyond the KC area to catch the banana madness.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
31 May 2026
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Gregory Moore said Cherrie Moore has bipolar schizophrenia and is under treatment while out on bond.—
Jericka Duncan,
CBS News,
2 June 2026
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Health workers say the sessions are designed as therapeutic interventions for living with anxiety, depression, autism, schizophrenia or other conditions.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 May 2026
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Analysts also questioned the geopolitical situation, particularly in the Middle East, where sales have been affected by broader regional instability, but Garcia Tapia stressed that the impact has been contained after early closures at the start of the Iran war.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
3 June 2026
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In the case of the inner binary in TIC 295741342, that would result in a zone of instability out to an orbital period of 19 days, which is still pretty close to the binary stars.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
3 June 2026
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