neurotic
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Germany is uniquely neurotic about debt and about unsound money.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Richards did tell Lindo that he needed to jettison some of the neurotic choices he was making as an actor.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
And while Jerry’s perfectionism had a toll on their creative process, it also fueled it, making way for more neurotic characters that Anne could play straight against.
From Salon • Oct. 18, 2025
She won the Academy Award for best actress for 1977’s “Annie Hall,” in which she plays the neurotic titular heroine written by her former partner Woody Allen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
I’ve been as saving as an exceptionally neurotic magpie all my life, and I still have the next-to-the-last draft of the letter I wrote to Sister Irma that June night in 1939.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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