neuroses
Example Sentences
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This explanation is so wrong-headed, yet so consistent with official Britain’s neuroses about data protection and process-following, that it may even be true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
The Ratliffs, with their North Carolina money and the neuroses to which they generally remain oblivious, are also deeply human.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025
For Mathew Horne, having played Gavin for 17 years is throwing up all sorts of existential questions: "I'm putting to one side all my neuroses about that and to the ageing process."
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024
A grand ensemble number opens the film, with characters exchanging verses that shrewdly extoll the family’s shared naivete and reveal each person’s neuroses.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2024
Ouija boards and black cats are way down the list of neuroses I suffer from.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
