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

D'Alessandro notes potential relevance for exercise physiology and for pathological hypoxia after traumatic injury.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 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

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

In the case of the great mathematician Roberval the result was a pathological conviction that other people were stealing his ideas.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton