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paranoid

[par-uh-noid] / ˈpær əˌnɔɪd /
ADJECTIVE
affected by paranoia
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Elias told the inquiry he only learned of his brother's paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis in October 2023, four months after the killings.

From BBC • May 13, 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

Once they arrived, Scott told the officers that he had paranoid schizophrenia and was having active hallucinations.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026

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

I’d be paranoid as hell while I was there, but my mother was so ecstatic about the idea that I knew there was no way I could back out.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia




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