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also paranoic
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Adjective
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Chris Moltisanti flipped right before his death As Tony's crew and friend circle starts to shrink as the show goes on, our panic attack-prone paisan becomes increasingly paranoid and scrambles to find a successor.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
10 June 2026 -
There’s moments where the audience does question her, but Rachel is ultimately a reliable narrator in the story, albeit the most paranoid and dysfunctional one.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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The beloved Jack Russell Terrier, known for his hard stare, often played the straight dog to the neurotic Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Niles (David Hyde).—
Camille Perri,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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Nilsson admits to suffering from horror vacui—a fear of empty space, which in her case reads less like a neurotic affliction than like compulsive conviviality.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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Americans call the sport soccer, the rest of the world calls it football, and therein lies the rub, the disconnection at the heart of the schizophrenic All-American life of Gilbert Chevalier.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
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Senior Deputy District Attorney Jeff Moore acknowledged that Fahim was schizophrenic, but argued that the killings were driven by Fahim’s anger at his workplace dispute with Cuomo, not his mental illness.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Just about every character in the movie is undergoing some sort of an identity crisis, yet rather than making the picture feel 'dark,' these various schizoid headcases bounce off each other like brightly colored billiard balls.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
15 June 2025
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Landy concluded Wilson suffered from a schizoid personality with manic depressive features — introverted, painfully shy, unable to show emotion.—
Steve Marble,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2025
Adjective
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Coffin diagnosed Murekezi with stimulant use disorder and schizoaffective disorder, which can include delusional and paranoid thoughts and auditory and visual hallucinations.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
8 June 2026
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Cut to the now-twentysomething Adam (The Idea of You‘s hunk Nicholas Galitzine), explaining all of this wonky mythology to a date, who writes him off as a delusional, pretty-boy doofus.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
4 June 2026
Adjective
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Wealthy, misanthropic and obsessive-compulsive, Melvin Udall, played by Jack Nicholson, develops an unlikely bond with Carol, a waitress portrayed by Helen Hunt.—
Camille Perri,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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In 2000, the Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry went to a trio of researchers at the University of Pisa in Italy and their colleague at UC San Diego for their discovery that, biochemically speaking, romantic love may be indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2026
Adjective
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In front of more than 11,000 delirious fans in Montreal, Mboko earned her fourth win over a former Grand Slam champion in seven matches, winning her first WTA Tour tournament.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
8 Aug. 2025
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Two others, delirious from drinking seawater, slid into the ocean and were killed by sharks in front of Cavanagh and another crewmate.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
13 July 2025
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These experts suggested Trump showed signs of narcissism, sociopathic tendencies, and a fixation on the haunting legacy of his punishing father.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
20 May 2026
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Eidinger brings sorely needed spark to these miserable proceedings; his profile of sociopathic villainy is, unfortunately or not, the most electric aspect of the film.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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“Paranoiac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paranoiac. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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