paranoia
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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
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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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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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