derange
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Tolentino explores these overheated environments and their incentives, and how they derange our sense of ourselves and our values.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019
Though ambiguity and the unknowable drive and derange this novel’s characters, I don’t believe Apostol is arguing against the existence of demonstrable fact.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2018
And yet neighbors living in democracies can derange themselves, too.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2016
Twin Peaks didn’t break the rules of dramatic television so much as subtly derange them.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2015
The quality of her clothes threatened to derange Frieda and me.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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Some chess dramas show the game as destructive, a pursuit that deranges its disciples.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2020
One shot in particular briefly references, and deranges, the Star Child sequence from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2018
Then again, a whole sequence in which Dreyfuss builds his dream peak in the living room from mud and shrubbery is so forced and silly it nearly deranges all the rest of the movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2017
There are two good reasons for its abolition: it infantilises us, and, in turn, it deranges the royals.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2012
Every new pattern which is introduced in hardware deranges for a moment the interests of the proprietors of the old moulds.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles
Despite the dismissal, Burgum vowed that the administration “won’t back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
"The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool," Burgum posted on X. "We won't back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments."
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
But in Pakistan it often takes on a deranged quality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Wineman isn’t afraid to spelunk truly deranged depths, but what’s remarkable is how much style he incorporates into the film’s most outré moments.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
He pantomimes each activity like some sort of deranged mime, and I can’t stop laughing.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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So much so, in fact, that John Wherry, director of the Penn Medicine Immune Health Institute, summed it up this way to Kaiser Health News: “COVID is deranging the immune system.”
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2023
Because he’s never put himself out there like this, and it’s deranging him because he’s a highly emotional person.
From The Verge ● Apr. 15, 2022
"Covid is deranging the immune system," said John Wherry, director of the Penn Medicine Immune Health Institute and another co-author of the January study.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2021
The New Yorker staff writer delivers an essay collection exploring the myriad modern-day forces deranging us, our ideas and our cultural values.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2019
As for him, he was repeating, steadily, "Pas dérange"—"Pas dérange," when all the time he was deranging ruthlessly and even permanently.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow
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