pathological

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The intellectual class has never been immune to the pathological American conviction that history is bunk.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

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

The study appears in Molecular Psychiatry under the title "Defective Hoxb8 microglia are causative for both chronic anxiety and pathological overgrooming in mice."

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 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

And yet what Jimmy had felt for her was beyond normal love; it was passion—a passion that was in part pathological.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote