claustrophobia
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Chiu suffered permanent damage to his hearing and struggled with claustrophobia for years, while Tsui said the ordeal robbed him of his adventurous personality and made him "a different person".
From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025
But add in the claustrophobia of the rivals being in the same engineering meetings and team briefings, balancing race strategies, and the intensity only increases.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025
Fumio Hayasaka’s music, with its overt hints of Ravel’s “Bolero,” adds a sense of claustrophobia to the imagery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
The film’s strongest game is its homage factor, especially in the way it captures much of the original’s claustrophobia.
From Salon • Aug. 16, 2024
An onrushing sense of claustrophobia stifled him, compressed his lungs, as if water filled their cavities.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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