manic-depressive

Example Sentences

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“This causes people to be distracted by the manic-depressive nature of the stock instead of creating great products.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

I know only that my mother, while still in fourth grade, watched Tomoyo go through a manic-depressive episode.

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2023

Iris, stately in her silk trousers and Nehru jacket, introducing herself in the group meetings as “a manic-depressive of 27 years’ standing.”

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2021

Also important: This way he doesn’t see me cowering in the corner, ashamed of who and what I am: a manic-depressive, perimenopausal woman.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2020

My German-speaking father, dead since I was nine, came from some manic-depressive hamlet in the black heart of Prussia.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath