pathological
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"Ferroptosis is not only relevant to cancer. Increasing evidence suggests that it also contributes to pathological processes in neurodegenerative diseases and in tissue damage following organ transplantation or ischemia-reperfusion injury."
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026
As a result, Prof Voon says, friends or family can regard the change in behaviour as generosity or extravagance - rather than anything pathological - and so it continues.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
The intellectual class has never been immune to the pathological American conviction that history is bunk.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
Then there’s the pathological terror of holding an actual opinion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
The massive, thundering herds were pathological, something that the land had not seen before and was unlikely to see again.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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