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After all, the original Surrealist movement, with its urge to systematically derange the senses, occurred in the wake of the First World War and its horrors.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

Tolentino explores these overheated environments and their incentives, and how they derange our sense of ourselves and our values.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019

And yet neighbors living in democracies can derange themselves, too.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2016

Twin Peaks didn’t break the rules of dramatic television so much as subtly derange them.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2015

The quality of her clothes threatened to derange Frieda and me.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Some chess dramas show the game as destructive, a pursuit that deranges its disciples.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2020

One shot in particular briefly references, and deranges, the Star Child sequence from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2018

Then again, a whole sequence in which Dreyfuss builds his dream peak in the living room from mud and shrubbery is so forced and silly it nearly deranges all the rest of the movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2017

There are two good reasons for its abolition: it infantilises us, and, in turn, it deranges the royals.

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2012

But in a contest like the present a new and boundless variety of circumstances arise, that deranges all such customary calculations.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas

Wineman isn’t afraid to spelunk truly deranged depths, but what’s remarkable is how much style he incorporates into the film’s most outré moments.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026

The Oklahoma senator previously said Pretti was deranged and was attempting to do maximum damage when he approached federal agents.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

Mullin also retracted remarks he made at the time in which he called one of the two Americans killed in Minneapolis a "deranged individual."

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

In 2022, after a deranged killer shot schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas, Mr. Cornyn was among 15 Republicans who voted for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which strengthened “red flag” laws and background checks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

The sound of pursuit still rang out from behind, but it had lessened, as if even their deranged pursuers understood it was crazy to head into a forest fire.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

So much so, in fact, that John Wherry, director of the Penn Medicine Immune Health Institute, summed it up this way to Kaiser Health News: “COVID is deranging the immune system.”

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2023

Because he’s never put himself out there like this, and it’s deranging him because he’s a highly emotional person.

From The Verge ● Apr. 15, 2022

"Covid is deranging the immune system," said John Wherry, director of the Penn Medicine Immune Health Institute and another co-author of the January study.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2021

The New Yorker staff writer delivers an essay collection exploring the myriad modern-day forces deranging us, our ideas and our cultural values.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2019

When the stomach of a man, who died of some complaint not deranging its condition, is examined, we sometimes find its lining membrane covered with a multitude of minute white points.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin