split personality

Example Sentences

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“I walked out understanding that this was the split personality of my life,” Newsom writes in “Young Man in a Hurry.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026

Gisèle Pelicot sees things more simply, embracing the idea, put forward at the trial, of a split personality.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2024

Because of the derivation of the term and because it literally meant "split," people decided schizophrenia meant split personality.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2023

Golden State developed a split personality as it proceeded in fits and starts, displaying the pride and potency that marked its dynasty years and a baffling new alter ego that seemed scattered and, frankly, mediocre.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2023

"Elly, Elly, Elly," the first voice mumbled, while the other voice went on hissing, "Miss Greenwood, Miss Greenwood, Miss Greenwood," as if I had a split personality or something.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath