manic-depressive

Example Sentences

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Much has changed since Tiberius and John Law and Jefferson Davis, but not the manic-depressive nature of speculative markets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

I know only that my mother, while still in fourth grade, watched Tomoyo go through a manic-depressive episode.

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2023

Violaine was 10 at the time of that crash; her mother, subsequently hospitalized and diagnosed as manic-depressive, was 42.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021

Each of the manic-depressive genes discovered only increases the risk of illness by a tiny amount.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2021

Well, when it first started they said she was a manic-depressive.

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones