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as in dementia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
that form of mania often manifests itself in excessive and often incoherent talkativeness
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as in obsession
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
his wife was baffled and amused by his mania for old comic books
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Recent Examples of mania
But by OpenAI’s own numbers, that amounts to some half a million people regularly exhibiting mania or psychosis on the platform.
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
Chatbot use may then be a symptom, Sarma said, akin to how one of his patients with bipolar disorder showers more frequently when entering a manic episode—the showers warn of but do not cause mania.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
Finally, with all the Wicked-mania right now, everybody wants to ask about the possibility for sequels, prequels or side roads.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025
My budget is closer to Gawda’s than Morgan’s, so other than a (brief and foolish) mania for purchasing seventeenth-century print on eBay a decade ago, my library is less a collection than a biography.
—Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
Chatbot use may then be a symptom, Sarma said, akin to how one of his patients with bipolar disorder showers more frequently when entering a manic episode—the showers warn of but do not cause mania.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
Finally, with all the Wicked-mania right now, everybody wants to ask about the possibility for sequels, prequels or side roads.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025
My budget is closer to Gawda’s than Morgan’s, so other than a (brief and foolish) mania for purchasing seventeenth-century print on eBay a decade ago, my library is less a collection than a biography.
—Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
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Memory loss, cognitive decline, anxiety, sleep disruption, dementia and cardiovascular disease are all known risks of long-term alcohol use, as well as liver complications like fatty liver disease.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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In order to fully get away with the crimes, Alice faked having dementia, so no one would ever suspect her.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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In Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, Gomez, 33, plays Mabel, who befriends two of her neighbors — Charles (Steve Martin) and Oliver (Martin Short) — who share her obsession with true crime podcasts.—
Brianne Tracy,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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Skinny Pedro’s obsession might therefore derive from some sort of insanity.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 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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Against that backdrop, Nick was reportedly being treated for schizophrenia before the deaths of his parents.—
Danielle Bacher,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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The mental state of Nick Reiner, who struggled for years with substance abuse and had been prescribed a schizophrenia drug, has now taken center stage in his legal battle.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Mania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mania. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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