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schizophrenic

adjective

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Recent Examples of schizophrenic The 911 caller told police that their schizophrenic son had struck her 69-year-old husband on the head with a hammer. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 What’s emerged is a schizophrenic marketplace where art and commerce have fused into The Substance. — Joseph Kahn, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026 These days, large language models are pushing the line between schizophrenic break and reality closer than ever before. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 9 Sep. 2026 As her life is starting, her mother suffers from an acute schizophrenic episode. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 16 June 2026 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, 13 May 2026 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 In many-minded terms, an octopus’s natural life spans so many lives that the one-minded might call it unnatural or even schizophrenic. — Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Longreads, 5 Feb. 2026 The ongoing controversy surrounding the police shooting of a mentalliy ill Queens schizophrenic man who charged at cops with a knife ratcheted up a notch Wednesday with the release of 911 audio the NYPD says makes clear police were going to be responding to the episode. — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026

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Adjective

The artist adopts a schizoid persona, with multiple voices flowing out of him, and swerves between lucid social criticism—about the history of slavery or of higher education—and total gibberish.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of schizoid

Adjective

The professionalization worked, but at the expense of the site’s internal culture, Cooke argues, as generous eccentrics were displaced by neurotic lovers of rules.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Ludwig is the twitchy, neurotic, charming character that Mitchell was born to play.

— Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of neurotic

Adjective

The situation became murkier as French lawyer Suzane Blum took increasing control over the affairs of Simpson, who had become increasingly paranoid and befuddled.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026
The bald guy lecturing me on how to get the money looked real enough, but the question of his true being kept rattling around my increasingly paranoid mind.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of paranoid

Adjective

Genetic predispositions to sensory overload, which is often experienced by people with autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder, can put someone on this path early in life.

— Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
During this period of my life, one that was entirely consumed by obsessive-compulsive disorder, virtually every e-mail that landed in my inbox had the same effect on me.

— Andrew Lipstein, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of obsessive-compulsive

Adjective

No one has the courage to break through his delusional bubble and confront him with the hard facts.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2026
However, having a fake lower handicap which most tournaments only take 85% to prevent sandbaggers will hurt a delusional golfer in the end.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of delusional

Adjective

Underneath that façade was a sociopathic white supremacist neo-Nazi filled with hatred, fantasizing about mass murder nearly every day.

— Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Matching the sociopathic charm and menace of Tom Ripley is a tall order, and Ehrenreich is a fantastic match for it.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of sociopathic

Adjective

The new mountaineering movies are delirious vicarious cinema, employing technological means and a filmmaking bravado that comes with them that would have been unimaginable three or four decades ago.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Messi collapsed to the turf as his teammates, delirious, ran to hug him.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of delirious

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