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Living in a high-crime area can create a siege mentality.
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The United States must drop its siege mentality on immigration and start to understand it as a complex regional problem.
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Shannon K. O’Neil, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
With prominent First Amendment lawyers declaring that Dominion had an exceptionally strong case, a siege mentality appeared to set in.
—Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 27 May 2023
Amid a rash of brazen burglaries this year, some San Francisco residents are adopting a siege mentality.
—Anna Buchmann, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
The new revelations remind us of the academic squabbling, pettiness, and biases that pervade many areas of science, and the existence of a siege mentality among some of the top echelons that works to paper over differences and uncertainties.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2011
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Shannon K. O’Neil, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
With prominent First Amendment lawyers declaring that Dominion had an exceptionally strong case, a siege mentality appeared to set in.
—Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 27 May 2023
Amid a rash of brazen burglaries this year, some San Francisco residents are adopting a siege mentality.
—Anna Buchmann, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
The new revelations remind us of the academic squabbling, pettiness, and biases that pervade many areas of science, and the existence of a siege mentality among some of the top echelons that works to paper over differences and uncertainties.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2011
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“Siege mentality.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/siege%20mentality. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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