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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
The Assertive Community Treatment program sought to find and help treat people suffering from severe mental illness, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 20 Feb. 2026
Santos, who was 24 at the time of the attacks, has schizophrenia and was homeless, too.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
Key to our investment thesis, however, has been the expansion of the company's schizophrenia drug, Cobenfy, to treat Alzheimer's.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
There is now a battle in court over where 26-year-old William DeFoor, who has schizophrenia, should be held while the case is pending.
—Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2026
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Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 20 Feb. 2026
Santos, who was 24 at the time of the attacks, has schizophrenia and was homeless, too.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
Key to our investment thesis, however, has been the expansion of the company's schizophrenia drug, Cobenfy, to treat Alzheimer's.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
There is now a battle in court over where 26-year-old William DeFoor, who has schizophrenia, should be held while the case is pending.
—Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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Simply getting older increases our chances of developing cancer, dementia, heart failure, and many other conditions.—
Andrew S. Brack,
Time,
26 Feb. 2026
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The rates of dementia and Alzheimer’s are only increasing.—
Lindsey Leake,
NBC news,
26 Feb. 2026
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Shot locally in Los Angeles and based on an original idea by Nicholas Geisler (Bunk’d), who here made his feature directorial debut, Gulf of America follows a family who inherits a decaying desert motel, triggering an inescapable descent into greed, psychosis, and terror.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
24 Feb. 2026
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The program model gave priority to keeping people on their medications, many of which are monthly shots to guard against psychosis.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Feb. 2026
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The falling moon of Majora's Mask While not a blood moon, Majora's Mask also taps into a rich vein of lunar paranoia by way of its grinning apocalypse moon.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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Both exhibited a lot of anxiety and paranoia.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
28 Feb. 2026
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The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses.—
Sam Kriss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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The self-torturing helices of thought twisting inside the young minds on the courts are no less fraught than the recursive neuroses tormenting the addicts down the hill.—
Hermione Hoby,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 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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Oasis may also find stronger momentum for getting in than with the group’s past nominations, because of a sellout world tour that generated a wave of fresh mania last year.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
25 Feb. 2026
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Sopho derives from the Greek word for wisdom, mania from the Greek word for madness.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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Reiner’s lawyers may plead insanity as part of his defense in connection with a long history of drug use and other mental health disorders.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
23 Feb. 2026
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Los Angeles entertainment and trial lawyer Tre Lovell tells USA TODAY that Reiner will likely plead not guilty by reason of insanity.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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