manic-depressive
Example Sentences
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“This causes people to be distracted by the manic-depressive nature of the stock instead of creating great products.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
I know only that my mother, while still in fourth grade, watched Tomoyo go through a manic-depressive episode.
From Seattle Times • May 14, 2023
Violaine was 10 at the time of that crash; her mother, subsequently hospitalized and diagnosed as manic-depressive, was 42.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021
Also important: This way he doesn’t see me cowering in the corner, ashamed of who and what I am: a manic-depressive, perimenopausal woman.
From Slate • Aug. 4, 2020
Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
