derange
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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
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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
By a surcharge of ore, which deranges the action of the furnace, and produces impure cinder, containing uncombined iron.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
It is even more deranged than you might expect.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
If Daily Brief is the no-nonsense helper, Dreambeans is its slightly deranged hippie brother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The US president at one point claimed the pool had been targeted by "sick, deranged" vandals, and was "given a 300 foot long gash" by a blade.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
So Wilson was reduced to a man "deranged by grief" in order that the case might remain in its simplest form.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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
And now, if you’ve done deranging my table, to the cellar for the wine, the whole pack of you.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
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