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psychotic

[sahy-kot-ik] / saɪˈkɒt ɪk /


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It stems from the March 2024 shooting death of 19-year-old Win Rozario, who had called police to his Queens home during a psychotic episode.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

At Southwark Crown Court, Mrs Justice Cutts said Safi, an Afghan refugee, had been "in a psychotic state" and recommended that he be deported, but said the final decision rested with the Home Secretary.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Coincidentally, last March, Ward gave the green light for Carruthers’ execution after his attorneys had argued that Carruthers was not competent to be executed because he was “consumed by psychotic delusions.”

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

But to make some generalization that all career women are psychotic because Glenn Close happened to be psychotic at the end of that movie is just silly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Had I been in some kind of psychotic haze all morning?

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

And I think that playing psychotics and playing villains allowed me to really understand that aspect of him.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022

By and large, the world is increasingly run by ignoramuses, wackos and psychotics.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2019

He became known as the Donz and found friendship in an AOL community made up of what he jokingly described as “like-minded psychotics who are as interested in this guy as I am.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2017

While much has been made of its links to other jihadists in Africa and elsewhere, these alliances have little practical effect, being little more than the distant salutes from one group of psychotics to another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2016

“Yes. If hallucinations can appear this ‘real’ to us, to anyone, if hallucinations are catching and almost believable, it’s no wonder they mistook us for psychotics.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury


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