paranoia
Example Sentences
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Unable to sleep after a traumatic birth in 2024, Lizzy quickly deteriorated into a state of psychosis - a potentially life-threatening condition that can cause hallucinations, severe insomnia and paranoia.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026
"There's paranoia around AI in every industry," said Wedbush analyst Dan Ives.
From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026
Is it a case of paranoia thanks to new motherhood?
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2026
We’ve also reached a point in the season at which previous groups of Traitors turned on each other for reasons similar to those that do in tyrannical cabals: mutual envy, paranoia and greed.
From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026
She and my father brought a curious blend of Jewish-European and African- American distrust and paranoia into our house.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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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