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paranoia

[par-uh-noi-uh] / ˌpær əˈnɔɪ ə /


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But Kemp quickly crumbled back in the castle, when paranoia set in.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Postpartum psychosis, characterized by losing touch with reality and experiencing paranoia, delusions or hallucinations, is far rarer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

There’s little tension or drive, just shaggy scenes about paranoia, trust and hope.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Bauer pointed to the John Birch Society, an organization that engaged in paranoia reporting in the 1960s.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

The basis for the paranoia, I think, is the fact that you're always sealed up in that room and have become suspicious of the outside world.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

It’s an uncanny combination of paranoias and legitimate concerns, but it’s undeniably working.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2020

Kwak explores the nature of plastics — how they can convey both ideas of flexibility and paranoias about contamination — in a solo exhibition that also dwells on queerness and the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 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


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