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Recent Examples of obsessive-compulsive
Antidepressants are also used to treat a wide variety of other conditions, such as anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain.
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The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
Research on psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder shows that avoidance and reassurance provide quick relief but deepen long-term suffering.
—Dr. Jesse Finkelstein, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
But much of it is simply my personality, which borders on the obsessive-compulsive.
—Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2025
In a federal court filing Tuesday morning, Cole's attorneys said he has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
—Gary Grumbach, NBC news, 30 Dec. 2025
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The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
Research on psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder shows that avoidance and reassurance provide quick relief but deepen long-term suffering.
—Dr. Jesse Finkelstein, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
But much of it is simply my personality, which borders on the obsessive-compulsive.
—Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2025
In a federal court filing Tuesday morning, Cole's attorneys said he has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
—Gary Grumbach, NBC news, 30 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsessive-compulsive
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The issue, which can arise within minutes, is that no matter how careful, how neurotic, how cautious someone is, inevitably the shiny piano black plastic trim gets scratched, knicked, and or marred rapidly as a car is used.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
5 Mar. 2026
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The series also saw Rick Hoffman reprise his fan-favorite character, the neurotic financial law partner Louis Litt, in the spinoff.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The ongoing controversy surrounding the police shooting of a mentalliy ill Queens schizophrenic man who charged at cops with a knife ratcheted up a notch Wednesday with the release of 911 audio the NYPD says makes clear police were going to be responding to the episode.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2026
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The most compelling aspect of Newsom’s biography is his schizophrenic upbringing, vis-à-vis wealth.—
Maya Singer,
Vogue,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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After a career defined by playing gangsters, an avenging taxi driver and a paranoid prize fighter, the Oscar-winning actor recited a call for civility, as first spoken by Abraham Lincoln.—
Hillel Italie,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2026
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After a career defined by playing gangsters, an avenging taxi driver and a paranoid prize fighter, Robert De Niro will be issuing a call for civility, as first spoken by Abraham Lincoln.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Mar. 2026
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The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.—
Rhoda Feng,
Washington Post,
14 Apr. 2024
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The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2024
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Unlike traditional steel, which has a crystalline atomic structure, amorphous steel has a disordered atomic arrangement.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Mar. 2026
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But intrinsically disordered proteins, a category that includes these nucleoporins, don’t have a single structure.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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According to court filings cited by CBS News, his family claims Gemini encouraged delusional thinking, escalated emotional dependency, and ultimately pushed him toward suicide.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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In this way, the film becomes a manifesto for alternate destinies within the Black experience, and a semi-formal goodbye letter to the delusional but politically expedient optimism of the 2010s, wherein the end of the neoliberal order becomes a gateway to renewed self-possession and agency.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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Harper is a bit of a dead-eyed, ruthless, sociopathic great white shark.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2026
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If readers are at all uncertain of his sociopathic tendencies, Heathcliff then hangs his wife’s dog.—
Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
13 Feb. 2026
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Becky is dehydrated and delirious, but manages to nourish herself after strangling and eating a vulture that attacked her on the platform.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Feb. 2026
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Some 20,000 delirious, singing spectators with flags of every sort in various states of inebriation had gotten their money’s worth, and then some.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Obsessive-compulsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obsessive-compulsive. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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