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psyche

[sahyk] / saɪk /


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Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s film isn’t the first nonfictional chronicle of Elizabeth Holmes’ enigmatic psyche, but it is the most revealing.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

“The massive outpouring around her death has really changed the British psyche, for the better,” William said during a magazine interview in 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Recovering a little of his former psyche with them, he starts to think a man like Bangley was praying for something like a pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Yet Cusk has found a large fan base for her work, mainly because she is a deft excavator of the human psyche, a writer who can articulate emotional states with uncanny precision and insight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

What was the legacy of those terror-filled days to Wickersham’s psyche?

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Netflix is so psyched about generative software that it’s spent the year acquiring an A.I. production studio, launching a different studio for A.I.-animated shorts, and re-creating Gene Wilder’s voice for a Willy Wonka–themed game show.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

"I picked up the hammer, stuck on Frankie goes to Hollywood's Two Tribes, got myself psyched up and went outside."

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

I psyched myself up to argue and dialed the customer service number on the back of the bill.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2026

Twenty-five years after their first album, both brothers are comfortable — psyched, even — to find their band in such an unlikely mix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025

“My mom is so psyched about the party she’s throwing to celebrate.”

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan

Of course, there are limits to taking a Panglossian attitude and psyching ourselves up in the face of challenges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

"I knew how toxic it can be. You're psyching yourself up for it, so to hear that you aren't going to need it is just unbelievable," she says.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2023

Clever on and off the court, Medvedev enjoys psyching out his opponents not only with his combination of impenetrable defense and sneaky offense but with his needling comments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2022

“Every day I get into my car, every day I decide to step out of my house, it’s a psyching up that I have to do to myself,” Ourlicht said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2020

This evening will be the music contest as well as the visual arts contest, so a lot of kids have guitars and the people in bands are all horsing around, psyching themselves up.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson


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