paranoia

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

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Nor will media literacy programs, stronger education about viruses, centralized hubs for medical information, “prebunking” campaigns, or community engagement programs—all good ideas from experts that still cannot meet the sheer force of our paranoia.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Postpartum psychosis is characterized by losing touch with reality, including having delusions, hallucinations or paranoia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The building, filled to its ceilings, grew increasingly dilapidated; Langley’s paranoia about suspected intruders led him to build mazes of detritus to throw them off.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

I saw expressions on people’s faces that I’d never seen before, something like anxiety and superiority and paranoia all mixed up in one polite grimace.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff

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

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2020

There is the idea that the dead never do wholly cross, staying on in memory, shaping our projections, paranoias, desires and dreams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2018

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

The debate split between those – such as rrrrrsrrrr – who thought Dunham justified in getting the hump: Why shouldn't a female comedian writing about the nonsense of female paranoias be called a feminist?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2013

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