paranoia
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Bauer pointed to the John Birch Society, an organization that engaged in paranoia reporting in the 1960s.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Nor will media literacy programs, stronger education about viruses, centralized hubs for medical information, “prebunking” campaigns, or community engagement programs—all good ideas from experts that still cannot meet the sheer force of our paranoia.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
"This paranoia and psychosis started kicking in… there was severe anxiety, panic attacks," Lowri, who spent six weeks in a neuropsychiatric hospital, said.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
On June 9, he’s launching “Tea & Scotch” on YouTube, which delves into more observational comedy subjects such as ghost-seeing cats, AI paranoia and parenting a teenager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
The Palace of Erhenrang is an inner city, a walled wilderness of palaces, towers, gardens, courtyards, cloisters, roofed bridgeways, roofless tunnel-walks, small forests and dungeon-keeps, the product of centuries of paranoia on a grand scale.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
It’s an uncanny combination of paranoias and legitimate concerns, but it’s undeniably working.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2020
One such illusion is that increasing racial proximity by integrating schools and housing is a good way to break down racial animosities and paranoias.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2020
YG’s present-day concerns and paranoias revitalized the heavy legacy of West Coast hip-hop, and the album became a contemporary classic, if there can be such a thing.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018
There is the idea that the dead never do wholly cross, staying on in memory, shaping our projections, paranoias, desires and dreams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2018
I remembered the walls made of grain sacks and ammunition boxes, of my father’s fears and paranoias, his scriptures and prophecies.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Vocabulary lists containing paranoia
"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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