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Recent Examples of neuroticism
People who had high neuroticism scores were most likely to experience the highest levels of stress reduction through exercise.
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The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2025
Meanwhile, neuroticism was associated with worse heart rate recovery, lower enjoyment of sustained or observed workouts, and less consistent self-monitoring (e.g., skipping heart rate logging).
—New Atlas, 8 July 2025
Conscientiousness is one of the Big Five personality traits that predict academic success (alongside extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, and neuroticism).
—Jasmine Mote, Scientific American, 7 July 2025
Interestingly, participants consistently struggled with identifying openness and neuroticism—two traits that were actually misidentified more often than not.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
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The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2025
Meanwhile, neuroticism was associated with worse heart rate recovery, lower enjoyment of sustained or observed workouts, and less consistent self-monitoring (e.g., skipping heart rate logging).
—New Atlas, 8 July 2025
Conscientiousness is one of the Big Five personality traits that predict academic success (alongside extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, and neuroticism).
—Jasmine Mote, Scientific American, 7 July 2025
Interestingly, participants consistently struggled with identifying openness and neuroticism—two traits that were actually misidentified more often than not.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neuroticism
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The film is a mess, opaque in its argument and tiring in its effortful weirdness, and yet in its best moments has a hypnotic pull.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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Marian treated the situation appropriately and maturely, despite LTW's weirdness throughout the season.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Eventually, approximately 30% of patients develop serious cardiac complications such as cardiomyopathy, heart rhythm abnormalities, or heart failure.—
Matthew Binnicker,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The proud mom welcomed Jones, who was born with Down syndrome and a rare congenital colon abnormality, in August 2022.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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And Sheen does find the words to tell more harrowing stories of addiction and excess that defined his Hollywood spiral.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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However, for some, gambling is an addiction that can ruin lives and families.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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With respect to gender roles, for instance, the aggressive zombies incarnate a warped and rotted form of traditional masculinity, a perversion of the warrior ideal.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025
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Spaces that seem most interested in the permissiveness of perversion.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
25 June 2025
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One of the many gifts of being connected to older relatives is the knowledge of how genetic predisposition can shape our lives.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Aug. 2025
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One of the many gifts of being connected to older relatives is the knowledge of how genetic predisposition can shape our lives.—
Eric Thomas,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Aug. 2025
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Those traits all kind of culminated in me joining the Kansas City Defender around the time of the protests.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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Shoddy-Mushroom-8456/Shoddy-Mushroom-8456 Others thought Bella could be a Goldador—a popular cross between a golden retriever and a Labrador retriever, combining the traits of both breeds.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Neuroticism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neuroticism. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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