pathological
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Zoning in on his career and moments such as his dramatic ousting from OpenAI in 2023, the story portrayed Altman as a pathological liar.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
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
Charles said my behavior was self-destructive, that I had an almost pathological inability to ask for help.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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