paranoia

"The country is not only in a mourning mood but also in a state of terror. We live in paranoia," rights defender Tito Magoti said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Amid the paranoia of wartime, it was dangerous for a Russian citizen to be a source for a foreign journalist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Cady turns their lives into a trap of paranoia and, indeed, fear, while procuring plausible deniability to avoid consequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Max Cady either validates the paranoia of upstanding men obsessed with protecting or dominating women, or the disdain felt by those whom such men look down upon.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Between her hockey schedule and my paranoia, that’s about all we can manage.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

It’s an uncanny combination of paranoias and legitimate concerns, but it’s undeniably working.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2020

Kwak explores the nature of plastics — how they can convey both ideas of flexibility and paranoias about contamination — in a solo exhibition that also dwells on queerness and the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020

YG’s present-day concerns and paranoias revitalized the heavy legacy of West Coast hip-hop, and the album became a contemporary classic, if there can be such a thing.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018

For the few specialists who have looked closely, targeted individuals represent an alarming development in the history of mental illness: thousands of sick people, banded together and demanding recognition on the basis of shared paranoias.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2016

I remembered the walls made of grain sacks and ammunition boxes, of my father’s fears and paranoias, his scriptures and prophecies.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover