psych
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I also saw this same dynamic when working on a hospital psych unit as a counselor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Other acts to receive money from the first pot from the FAC's UK Artist Touring Fund include Southampton rapper VIC, London soul singer Ego Ella May, and Manchester psych noise group Wax Head.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
Their psych ward meet-cute isn't as romantic as it sounds — I promise.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2024
We watch him psych himself up in front of the mirror and even do his own lip injections — all while rocking out to Christian Castro’s “No podrás.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024
Though keeplocked, he got a special escort to the psych floor twice a day to take his meds.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
This is a woman who psychs herself up in the mirror and raps to herself, in order to ...
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2017
“He’s like Muhammad Ali, he psychs out all the other horses,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2017
Before trials, he psychs himself up by yelling “Showtime!,” in a nod to “All That Jazz.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2015
You can also designate a "Fit Song," so at the touch of a button you hear the tune that always psychs you up to go all out.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2012
You fooled the top psychs of the Board.
From Masters of Space by Robert Lee Berry
Netflix is so psyched about generative software that it’s spent the year acquiring an A.I. production studio, launching a different studio for A.I.-animated shorts, and re-creating Gene Wilder’s voice for a Willy Wonka–themed game show.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
To me, Jann is a guy that got a lot of people psyched to link arms and write about music at a time when nobody had a place to really do it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
The SNL actor said his hosts were "psyched" he wore a kilt and he "had the best dinner ever".
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
“We’re psyched for five more years with our fans.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
“My mom is so psyched about the party she’s throwing to celebrate.”
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
Of course, there are limits to taking a Panglossian attitude and psyching ourselves up in the face of challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Clever on and off the court, Medvedev enjoys psyching out his opponents not only with his combination of impenetrable defense and sneaky offense but with his needling comments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2022
“Every day I get into my car, every day I decide to step out of my house, it’s a psyching up that I have to do to myself,” Ourlicht said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2020
“They’re unreliable,” one insisted, meaning that people allegedly made stuff up on them for the sole purpose of psyching each other out.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2016
He tries not psyching himself into thinking Delilah is calling and his heart races when he reads her name.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
