paranoia
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Max Cady either validates the paranoia of upstanding men obsessed with protecting or dominating women, or the disdain felt by those whom such men look down upon.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Mr. Pynchon, a descendant of the colonial family fictionalized in “The House of the Seven Gables,” infuses his chronicle with a modern sense of paranoia and a taste for countercultural heresies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
All of them would later influence “Leviticus”’ visceral atmosphere of romance, paranoia and dread.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
The result in Beijing verged at times towards collective paranoia.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Sounded like Mr. Griggs talked a lot more than his son and had a bad case of paranoia in common with his sister.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
He described the car as a “mobile fortress” and paints an exceedingly dour view of a desolate city center disconnected from suburbs rife with paranoias about security.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2021
It’s an uncanny combination of paranoias and legitimate concerns, but it’s undeniably working.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2020
I think it’s quite similar – we both have some of the same little writing paranoias.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2017
We study the mechanics of crime not to fan our paranoias, but, rather, to defuse them—to tether our imaginations to facts.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2015
I remembered the walls made of grain sacks and ammunition boxes, of my father’s fears and paranoias, his scriptures and prophecies.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Vocabulary lists containing paranoia
"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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