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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

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

No other single human emotion so affects the body, so upsets the mind, so deranges every function, as does jealousy.

From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by Robinson, William J.

Mullin also retracted remarks he made at the time in which he called one of the two Americans killed in Minneapolis a "deranged individual."

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have accused the author of a new royal biography of "deranged conspiracy and melodrama".

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

In 2022, after a deranged killer shot schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas, Mr. Cornyn was among 15 Republicans who voted for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which strengthened “red flag” laws and background checks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

As we entered the new century and American office culture began to shift away from the stifling beige bureaucracy pinpointed in Dilbert, Adams’ online antics grew increasingly deranged.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026

“Well, you could start a whole new career as a deranged Muppet. Okay. Not funny. Sorry.”

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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

His relationship with painting was akin to that of a besotted lover with a domineering partner: The pleasure is deranging, but the cost to one’s equanimity steep.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2022

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

If," replied Mr. Stevens, "I could have specie payment to-morrow, without deranging the business of the country, I would.

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio