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After all, the original Surrealist movement, with its urge to systematically derange the senses, occurred in the wake of the First World War and its horrors.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

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

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

Derangement in any part of the brain deranges or diminishes its functions; non-development in any part of the brain can and does arrest mind growth.

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various

It is even more deranged than you might expect.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 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

“And yes, seriously. My parents are so deranged it’s not even funny.”

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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 man, being free, errs, he must, by the necessity of the laws of the universe, in deranging its harmony, suffer and cause suffering.

From 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Henry Hartshorne