paranoid
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"I was paranoid, thinking they were trying to give my store to somebody else. My Lincoln store was up for renewal and they hadn't been talking to me about it," she says.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
He led Intel to unimaginable heights, wrote management texts and coined the mantra “only the paranoid survive.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
Once they arrived, Scott told the officers that he had paranoid schizophrenia and was having active hallucinations.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026
He also poked at Jones, a star of the paranoid, far-right fringe, for losing a massive defamation lawsuit filed by the parents of children killed in a 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
Had Izzy been a different kind of child, this might have led her to be cautious, or neurasthenic, or paranoid.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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