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paranoia

[par-uh-noi-uh] / ˌpær əˈnɔɪ ə /


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"This paranoia and psychosis started kicking in… there was severe anxiety, panic attacks," Lowri, who spent six weeks in a neuropsychiatric hospital, said.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Mr. Pynchon, a descendant of the colonial family fictionalized in “The House of the Seven Gables,” infuses his chronicle with a modern sense of paranoia and a taste for countercultural heresies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Jones has a history of paranoia and is believe to have made 13 calls to the FBI this year reporting that he was being threatened and intimidated, according to the complaint.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

The result in Beijing verged at times towards collective paranoia.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

It was perhaps in another such fit of paranoia that Dad fired my mother’s sister Angie.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

It’s an uncanny combination of paranoias and legitimate concerns, but it’s undeniably working.

From Slate Sep. 18, 2020

There is the idea that the dead never do wholly cross, staying on in memory, shaping our projections, paranoias, desires and dreams.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2018

We study the mechanics of crime not to fan our paranoias, but, rather, to defuse them—to tether our imaginations to facts.

From The New Yorker Dec. 16, 2015

The debate split between those – such as rrrrrsrrrr – who thought Dunham justified in getting the hump: Why shouldn't a female comedian writing about the nonsense of female paranoias be called a feminist?

From The Guardian Jun. 4, 2013

I remembered the walls made of grain sacks and ammunition boxes, of my father’s fears and paranoias, his scriptures and prophecies.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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