paranoid
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Many of its symptoms were virtually identical to the delusions of paranoid schizophrenia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"Rigid and persistent symptoms, such as paranoid ideas or an internalized critical voice, may be stable but not very flexible prediction models," says Stänicke.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026
Greenspan later wrote that he found the president to be "sadly paranoid, misanthropic and cynical", but the economist's success at curbing inflation impressed Nixon's successors.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
But their tentative affair is secondary to the complex bond between Ali and Jersey, whose troubled connection with Davis helps Ali understand why her mother is so paranoid about her romantic choices.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
Following HERO'S arrest, they had stopped recruiting Soviet informers under orders from James Jesus Angleton, the secretive and paranoid CIA chief of counterintelligence.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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