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a very serious mental illness in which someone cannot think or behave normally and often experiences delusions
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Recent Examples of schizophrenia
Examining brain slices under a microscope didn’t reveal what researchers now believe to be the subtle variations of brain function underlying schizophrenia.
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Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
Conditions such as major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia and severe anxiety disorders frequently involve fluctuating symptoms.
—Jeffrey Freedman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
For Whitman, an Army veteran living with schizophrenia, that structure has become part of everyday life.
—Nick Lunemann, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
Around his college years, Fahim was also involuntarily hospitalized for the first — but not last — time, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and began taking an anti-psychotic medication.
—Sean Emery, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for schizophrenia
Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
Conditions such as major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia and severe anxiety disorders frequently involve fluctuating symptoms.
—Jeffrey Freedman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
For Whitman, an Army veteran living with schizophrenia, that structure has become part of everyday life.
—Nick Lunemann, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
Around his college years, Fahim was also involuntarily hospitalized for the first — but not last — time, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and began taking an anti-psychotic medication.
—Sean Emery, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for schizophrenia
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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But a new tool, the Brain Care Score, shows how lifestyle changes can be beneficial, cutting the risk of dementia.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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His wife recently raised more than $90,000 through GoFundMe to support his move into memory care following a dementia diagnosis.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Hathaway’s White Queen floats with sweet highs and dark lows, her heavenly air masking a morbid psychosis.—
Chris Feil,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
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Of course, those problems proved significant — and manifested as AI psychosis, suicide, murder, and several mass shootings that have been linked to the tech.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
29 Apr. 2026
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Senior White House staff discussed invoking the Twenty-fifth as Nixon spiralled into paranoia.—
Diego Lasarte,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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And deep into the invasion of Ukraine, as US support for Kyiv dwindles, European intelligence agencies have significant motivation to suggest mounting strife and paranoia in the Kremlin.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
4 May 2026
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This remains a great part for Hathaway, who can hint at all sorts of neuroses beneath a character’s surface pep.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
29 Apr. 2026
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All of the worry and neurosis of the past few weeks was absent, or at least tamped firmly down, replaced by a palpable buzz.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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Boes was working with a patient who had a rare disorder called peduncular hallucinosis, in which damage to the thalamus, a structure at the center of the brain, causes visual hallucinations.—
Grace Huckins,
Wired,
17 Aug. 2020
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Cycling between periods of mania or hypomania – high energy and excitement – and depression can have an enormous impact on a person’s daily life, work, and relationships.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Mar. 2025
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And then fifteen years later, divorce uprooted us all; my family-first ethic hadn’t withstood the episodes of depression and hypomania that, eerily for me, took hold of my husband for a handful of years at midlife.—
Megan Marshall,
The New Yorker,
8 Feb. 2025
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As Grann starts to painstakingly reconstruct Fawcett’s voyages on the page, the longtime New Yorker staff writer also gets caught up in Fawcett’s mania.—
Eva Holland,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2026
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Ironically, an honest-to-goodness mummy movie consumed with exotica (the first one from 1932 was released in the wake of the global mania over King Tut’s tomb) makes a lot of sense right now, with America straying into foreign deserts.—
Joshua Rothkopf,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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The assassination attempt failed — and Hinckley was arrested, tried and found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982.—
Kelsie Cairns,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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His acquittal, which led to a public outcry, had an impact on the federal insanity defense — leading to a shift in the burden of proof.—
Katrina Kaufman,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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