paranoid
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As the old joke has it, you’re not paranoid if someone is really following you.
From Slate • May 9, 2026
"I was paranoid, thinking they were trying to give my store to somebody else. My Lincoln store was up for renewal and they hadn't been talking to me about it," she says.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
He led Intel to unimaginable heights, wrote management texts and coined the mantra “only the paranoid survive.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
It is a paranoid reflex that turns any hint of infiltration into proof of betrayal.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026
I thought I was just being paranoid, and then I remembered that I was being stared at for a reason.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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