derangement

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for derangement
Noun
  • Be smart: Keeping your brain on its toes, so to speak, can help prevent dementia.
    Carly Mallenbaum, Axios, 7 May 2025
  • Social isolation is a leading risk factor for a wide range of serious health problems, including heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
    Rob Simmelkjaer, New York Daily News, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • Historically on summer weekends and holidays, the number of visitors visiting the park frequently contributes to crowded conditions and travel disruptions, officials said.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2025
  • Today's students—confronting mounting student debt concerns, AI disruption, and fierce competition for jobs—prioritize credentials, internships, and practical skills over traditional college experiences.
    Scott White, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • As part of an agreement between defense and prosecuting attorneys, 35-year-old Bryson Levy was found not guilty by reason of insanity on Feb. 4.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 9 May 2025
  • Dominguez has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to the stabbings two years ago that killed David Breaux, 50, and Karim Abou Najm, 20, as well as the near-fatal attack on Guillory.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • On a random note: Long before those assignments, Chuck was pepper-sprayed covering the disturbances in Miami the morning Elián Gonzalez was whisked away by federal authorities.
    Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 12 May 2025
  • There isn’t much built in to withstand those kinds of disturbances or fluctuations.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The White House has cited legislation passed during the peak of the nation’s Cold War hysteria, like the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, which expanded the government’s deportation powers.
    Rick Baldoz, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The lynchings take place against a backdrop of hysteria created by the R.S.S. and its allies—a paranoid narrative of a vast majority, nearly a billion strong, being victimized by a much smaller minority.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And, last weekend, in the midst of Met Gala madness, the four iconic artist-entrepreneurs were reunited at the show’s 20th anniversary.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 14 May 2025
  • In some Asian and Middle Eastern traditions, dementia was historically associated with madness or idiocy.
    Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Related article ‘This ain’t your mother’s marijuana’: Surgeon General warns pregnant women and youth about pot risks Young people who use marijuana are more likely to develop long-lasting mental disorders, including depression, social anxiety and schizophrenia, and drop out of school, the CDC said.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 5 May 2025
  • For the past 14 years, Palafox has served as private conservator to her son, deemed gravely disabled by schizophrenia that took hold in his early 20s.
    CalMatters, Mercury News, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • In later stages there may be instability of the joints of the foot and deformities.
    Isabel Casimiro, Verywell Health, 22 May 2025
  • Google started looking into nuclear energy after realizing renewables were potentially causing instability on the grid, said Caroline Golin, Google’s global head of energy market development.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 21 May 2025
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“Derangement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/derangement. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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