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also paranoic
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Adjective
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One of Nicole Mitchell’s aunts testified that Carol Mitchell’s communications became increasingly paranoid in the months following the death of her husband Rod Mitchell.—
Ingrid Harbo,
Twin Cities,
17 July 2025 -
Ruiz’s father told San Antonio Express-News that his son had been exhibiting signs of a mental disorder, including having hallucinations and making paranoid accusations, in the days leading up to the stabbing.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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Does Marnie's response to her plans getting derailed come off as a bit neurotic?—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
18 July 2025
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Names, dates, positions; her friends, his friends, her own first cousin, Ceil, long dead now, from cancer of the breast—beautiful, neurotic, unmarried Ceil had schtupped her Walter!—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Leo manages to subtly play Hughes' growing paranoia and fear before his obsessive-compulsive nature fully takes over.—
Derek Lawrence,
EW.com,
13 July 2025
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It is occasionally used today for people with debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder, but the technique remains unapproved for depression and is largely confined to research trials—some of which have ended in dispiriting, high-profile failure.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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For the past few days, though, the internet has been gripped with Monterrey wall fever, the kind of mass hysteria that can really only take hold during the long, delirious advance of a summer tournament.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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The back and forth between these two figures — between, essentially, man and fate — has a delicious, delirious existential kick.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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That this sociopathic posting style is coming out of this administration—that it has been so thoroughly mainstreamed by the right—suggests that the cultural architecture of the internet has changed.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
28 Mar. 2025
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The exception might be those with sociopathic tendencies, research shows that to be a relatively small percentage of the population.—
Heather V. MacArthur,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
Adjective
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The cells have an ugly, disordered appearance under a microscope.—
Adam B. Kushner,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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In more severe cases, this ongoing pattern may erode a parent’s relationship with food, leading to emotional or disordered eating that feels increasingly difficult to name, let alone break.—
Christine Michel Carter,
Parents,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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Regardless of development, the area of disturbed weather is expected to be a rainmaker in the region.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
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And daily hauls of the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times, plus a new one, Adweek, placed around the ground-floor lobby if seemingly never disturbed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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