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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
Exhausted by her plight, Catherine also wonders if Robert’s schizophrenia is hereditary.
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
Speaking to an Irvine detective, Fahim acknowledged killing Cuomo and Bahm, but blamed it on his schizophrenia, claiming that voices in his head had told him to carry out the slayings.
—Sean Emery, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
Sebastian DeGout, 39, diagnosed in late adolescence with both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, was sentenced in Middlesex Superior Court to three to six years in prison for the vicious and sudden attack inside his mother’s 18th Street apartment on March 15, 2025.
—Aaron Curtis, Boston Herald, 11 Apr. 2026
Brown, a homeless man diagnosed with schizophrenia, is currently in federal custody on separate charges relating to the alleged murder.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
Speaking to an Irvine detective, Fahim acknowledged killing Cuomo and Bahm, but blamed it on his schizophrenia, claiming that voices in his head had told him to carry out the slayings.
—Sean Emery, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
Sebastian DeGout, 39, diagnosed in late adolescence with both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, was sentenced in Middlesex Superior Court to three to six years in prison for the vicious and sudden attack inside his mother’s 18th Street apartment on March 15, 2025.
—Aaron Curtis, Boston Herald, 11 Apr. 2026
Brown, a homeless man diagnosed with schizophrenia, is currently in federal custody on separate charges relating to the alleged murder.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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Girardi — who was placed under a temporary conservatorship after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia — reported to prison in July to begin his seven-year sentence.—
Brianne Tracy,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
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Greenhaven had racked up years of health violations, including from letting untrained workers administer medications, lacking enough employees to care for people with dementia, and neglecting a resident who smeared feces over his body, bed, floor, and bathroom, the notice said.—
Jordan Rau,
Miami Herald,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This is when a parent kills their child during a state of psychosis or hallucinating.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
22 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, firstborns were more likely to have childhood psychoses and acne.—
Sara Novak,
Scientific American,
21 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Over Your Dead Body knows that sustaining a harmonious union amid petty jealousies, paranoia, and personal flaws is hard; navigating a hostage situation involving desperate sickos and sociopaths is even harder; and maintaining a balance of laughs and gag-reflex tweaking is the hardest of it all.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Apr. 2026
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Still, the paranoia has settled in.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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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Bad things happen when an AI chatbot latches onto one of your neuroses.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
8 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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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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Through her precise storytelling, Hao offers a clarifying perspective amid the AI mania and lays bare the ravenous, profit-seeking egos driving it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 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 30 Apr. 2026.
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