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adj.affected by paranoia

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“One continues to wonder,” Buckley wrote, “how it is that the membership of the John Birch Society tolerates such paranoid and unpatriotic drivel.”

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“In retrospect, it’s a bit of a pity, when we could have been discussing logistics and operations, but everyone was really paranoid,” the state official said.

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The late British essayist Christopher Hitchens once described Pakistan as a “humorless, paranoid, insecure” nation.

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Apple is more paranoid about privacy than Amazon or Google, though that means the HomePod mini isn’t as widely capable in the smart home — it still can’t operate things like the most popular doorbells and thermostats.

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Those of us who live in a city are not sure about how paranoid to be.

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Not everyone who frequents gangstalking forums is clinically paranoid or experiencing persecutory delusions, of course, just as everyone who visits 5G conspiracy forums cannot be declared free of psychosis.

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But if you want to understand security, you need to consider the most paranoid possibilities.

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Even if it's a paranoid constitutional inferior like Jimmy's father.

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Then the paranoid symptoms appear; he imagines himself surrounded by envious enemies, who are conspiring against him.

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Aside from this paranoid complex he had a complete left-sided functional hemiplegia with all the concomitant signs.

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