pathological
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Grinch boosters point out that the villain repents and reforms at the end of the story, shedding his pathological hatred of Christmas.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025
Rowan "presents completely differently to Holly" and has pathological demand avoidance which means his "nervous system's response to any demand is to see it as a threat".
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
We moderns, Mr. Delbourgo argues, have gone from theories of “demonic possession to accusations of superstition, obsession, sexual neurosis, and pathological greed down to the recent invention of the medical term ‘hoarding disorder.’”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
Their brains showed many of the same pathological features seen in humans with Alzheimer's disease, including β-amyloid plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau proteins.
From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2025
I mean, I do sort of tell my mom everything, to a degree that’s almost pathological.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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