phobia
Example Sentences
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She was diagnosed with school phobia and ended up being home schooled for a while, and has since found it hard to stay in a job.
From BBC
Like addiction or phobia, it narrows lives and corrodes resilience.
"Everything changed" after Paris, she said, noting that she employs up to six people to guard her house at night now, and that she started to get a "phobia of going out" because she thought people would "see me out and know my home was empty".
From BBC
In my early 30s, I developed a terrible phobia of flying.
From Los Angeles Times
One of the favorite pseudo-intellectuals of the movement, Curtis Yarvin, sneeringly calls it "dictator phobia" to argue that government should depend on the will of the people, dismissing democracy as outdated and inefficient.
From Salon
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