paranoid

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Brandon Silverman, whose social media monitoring tool Crowdtangle was bought by Facebook in 2016, was party to some senior-level discussions during this time and described how CEO Mark Zuckerbeg was "very paranoid" about competition.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Foreign policy analysts would normally consider distraction to be a lazy and unprofessional explanation for major actions like wars, if not a symptom of paranoid conspiracy thinking.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

A person may also become extremely confused and paranoid, easily upset, moody and irritable.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

“Only the paranoid survive,” added Lake, who is among the leaders viewed as a potential successor to Dimon.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

Isolated, embittered, increasingly paranoid and depressed, Muller disappeared from his lab one morning and could not be found in his classroom.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee