paranoid
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"Since Carter’s death, I feel paranoid and isolated."
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
So, going forward, he decided to get real, endeavoring to make a “serious film about what it meant to become paranoid and have this feeling that there’s always an enemy following you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
A baffled Erika felt that her mom had been replaced with a combative and paranoid stranger.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Nottinghamshire Police dealt with Calocane on 10 or 11 occasions between 2020 and 2022, but John Beggs KC - representing the force - said police "cannot manage dangerous paranoid schizophrenics".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
I devised a bizarre and ever-evolving rubric by which I measured his love for me, and when he failed to meet it, I became paranoid.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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