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Living in a high-crime area can create a siege mentality.
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The Giants, with their ownership’s decades-long siege mentality over territorial rights in the South Bay, had a role to play in this final result.
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Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 18 Aug. 2024
The United States must drop its siege mentality on immigration and start to understand it as a complex regional problem.
—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
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Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 18 Aug. 2024
The United States must drop its siege mentality on immigration and start to understand it as a complex regional problem.
—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
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“Siege mentality.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/siege%20mentality. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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