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as in lunatics
a person having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind
brought in a counselor to work with the student they worried might be a head case
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as in eccentrics
a person of odd or whimsical habits
an area of scientific research that's a good niche for social misfits and hard-core head cases
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for head cases
Noun
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The lunatics are running the asylum.—
Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026 -
Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Michael Cera, Will Arnett and other lunatics round out the cast.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
Noun
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Inbred eccentrics and bumbling detectives have populated the seaside villages of Bruno Dumont’s absurdist comedies.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
16 June 2026
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Once a stronghold of canneries and lumber mills, the town has numerous tumbledown Victorians that have long been havens for artists, brewers, and various eccentrics—along with fans of The Goonies, who make pilgrimages to see where the seminal movie was shot.—
David Amsden,
Travel + Leisure,
10 June 2026
Noun
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Although Swift swallowed a few bugs while performing on the Eras Tour, this is a different shiny bug.—
Bryan West,
The Tennessean,
22 Aug. 2025
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Pollen, dead bugs, bird droppings and tree sap can be a nuisance, too.—
Keenan Thompson,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Tawny Port spends years in barrel, picking up notes of caramel, nuts, and toffee along the way.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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Examples include fatty fish, fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy, nuts, seeds, and spices.—
Lana Barhum,
Verywell Health,
12 June 2026
Noun
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Plus, people drove like maniacs in the parking lot, especially on weekends and around holidays.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2026
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Because Sidney Prescott, now Evans, exists only in relationship to Ghostface, the costume worn by many different knife-wielding maniacs over the years, starting with her high school boyfriend.—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
3 Mar. 2026
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With OpenAI, Disney would be creating a legitimate avenue through which a generative AI program could deploy its characters, rather than playing whack-a-mole with every AI company, as Disney has done with other kinds of media in the past.—
Daniel Arkin,
NBC news,
11 Dec. 2025
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The characters’ stick-figure proportions feel all the more glaring next to the complexity and generosity of Jud, whose insistence on his innocence is clouded by the shadow of his guilty past.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2025
Noun
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This game makes fools of us all.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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The American media look here like fools, as does the conspiratorial mirror image imagining a vast secret US operation.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
15 June 2026
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Disney+ is getting into the originals game in Canada.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
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Revry is responding by making vertical-video versions of all its originals that can be fed to multiple platforms.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
11 June 2026
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“Head cases.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/head%20cases. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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