paranoia
Example Sentences
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During a hearing on Sunday in Brasilia, Bolsonaro stated he "experienced a certain paranoia between Friday and Saturday due to medication," according to a Supreme Court document obtained by AFP.
From Barron's
Bolsonaro said he "experienced a certain paranoia between Friday and Saturday due to medication" when he had used a soldering iron on the monitoring bracelet, the document read.
From Barron's
All the above is set against a backdrop of paranoia, a common feature of this type of dementia.
Yet we don’t feel the paranoia of eyeballs over the streets, even though it turns out that there’s no way to disguise Powell’s foxlike features under a silly stick-on mustache.
From Los Angeles Times
As Gabriel senses “the spy’s disease—paranoia—begin to take him over, like a virus,” we become participants in an elaborate guessing game.
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