claustrophobia
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The effect instead is one of claustrophobia, an especially embarrassing misstep when it comes to a work about liberation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
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
It’s not only the claustrophobia of an enclosed space with strangers or control-seeking authorities but time itself that creates the feeling of dread.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025
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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