paranoid
Example Sentences
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“Our goal is to be actually paranoid about deployment because obviously, even one accident will be front-page headline news worldwide,” Musk said on the call.
"Both the US and Taiwan are paranoid and jumpy about Palau switching," said Graeme Smith, a senior fellow at the Australian National University.
From BBC
“In the future, of course, people will become more paranoid in economics,” Acemoglu said.
Ms. Holmes’s mother, Noel, said she stopped cold in a Barnes & Noble when she saw her daughter characterized in a book display as a “paranoid sociopath” who is “devoid of conscience.”
From New York Times
Still, “Invaders from Mars” made a mark for its time by terrifying Americans consumed by paranoid thoughts of being attacked by Russia and nuclear proliferation.
From Washington Times
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