pathological
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Grinch boosters point out that the villain repents and reforms at the end of the story, shedding his pathological hatred of Christmas.
From Los Angeles Times
In those cases, restoring NAD+ balance allowed the brain to repair the major pathological damage caused by the genetic mutations.
From Science Daily
The pathological self-regard required to be a YouTube star turned out to be reasonable preparation for the supercharged bravado of being a boxer.
It’s a reminder that what often looks like dominance in the global economy may instead be symptomatic of a pathological codependence.
The study appears in Molecular Psychiatry under the title "Defective Hoxb8 microglia are causative for both chronic anxiety and pathological overgrooming in mice."
From Science Daily
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