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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
Brown had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and suffered hallucinations and paranoia, his sister Tracey Brown said.
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Holly Yan, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Originally from Arizona, Van Tine had struggled with schizophrenia, his brother Matthew said.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
Doctors diagnosed him with schizophrenia.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
My brother was a poet, classics scholar, and charismatic leader of nerds who blossomed into a handsome surfer and then nosedived into schizophrenia and a life of unfiltered Camel cigarettes, caffeine, and antipsychotics.
—Kim Gordon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
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Holly Yan, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Originally from Arizona, Van Tine had struggled with schizophrenia, his brother Matthew said.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
Doctors diagnosed him with schizophrenia.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
My brother was a poet, classics scholar, and charismatic leader of nerds who blossomed into a handsome surfer and then nosedived into schizophrenia and a life of unfiltered Camel cigarettes, caffeine, and antipsychotics.
—Kim Gordon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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Seeing no future in fast food, Siemiatkowski took jobs as a dementia caretaker, school teacher, and eventually an internet subscription telemarketer.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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Vision may be impacted and the sufferer will demonstrate symptoms of dementia before, ultimately, losing the ability to perform basic functions like eating, swallowing and breathing.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This is mass political psychosis.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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And Cherry doesn’t need much to encourage her dormant psychosis.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Brown had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and suffered hallucinations and paranoia, his sister Tracey Brown said.—
Holly Yan,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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Gnawing paranoia inevitably awakens Pynchon’s characters to the matrix of control enveloping their lives.—
John Lopez,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Americans are particularly susceptible to these neuroses.—
Franklin Schneider,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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The movie is a wry look at the petty foibles of life, the fears and neuroses that can impede a person’s path to fulfillment and enlightenment.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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The Labubu mania has reached the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
7 Sep. 2025
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Wang Ning, founder of toy maker Pop Mart International Group, has become richer than Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma thanks to the global mania for the company’s Labubu dolls.—
Yue Wang,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Those members of Bachelor Nation who aren't familiar with the #MomTok insanity will have several months to get up to speed, as Paul's season of The Bachelorette will not premiere until 2026.—
Kristen Baldwin,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Sep. 2025
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She was later extradited from South Korea in 2022, PEOPLE previously reported, and has since pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and is pursuing an insanity defense.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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