How to Use maladaptive in a Sentence

maladaptive

adjective

• What looks to us like a maladaptive state might be the best of many bad options.
  — National Geographic, 4 Oct. 2016
• What looks to us like a maladaptive state might be the best of many bad options.
  — National Geographic, 4 Oct. 2016
• Much of excessive drinking and drug use is a maladaptive way of lowering stress in the short term.
  — Brennan Barnard, Forbes, 4 July 2022
• If left unchecked, these maladaptive thought patterns can lead to debilitating levels of burnout and stress.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• This gives rise to the other attachment styles: anxious and avoidant, sometimes referred to as maladaptive attachment styles.
  — Eve Ettinger, Allure, 28 Nov. 2020
• The other interesting finding was a link between the use the maladaptive coping and the probability that a runner would finish the race.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2018
• This is known as maladaptive daydreaming and it is accepted as a response to trauma, abuse or loneliness.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2021
• There seems to be a strong relationship between OCD and maladaptive daydreaming.
  — Giulia Poerio, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023
• No surprise, then, that chronic stress often leads to maladaptive coping mechanisms in modern life.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2021
• Today this form of punishment can easily become abuse, and is a maladaptive habit that most black folk inherited.
  — Richael Faithful, The Root, 25 May 2017
• The condition stems from a maladaptive inflammatory response to a systemic infection, which causes blood clots to form throughout the body, blood vessels in the skin to collapse, and tissue to die.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2022
• Like arsonists setting fire to a city, malicious actors might seek to inject such maladaptive brain activity in a bid to harm other users.
  — Kelly Clancy, Wired, 10 Jan. 2022
• Like a peacock rendered nearly flightless by gaudy tail feathers, the overserved athlete is the product of a process that has become maladaptive, and is now harming the very blue-chip demographic it was supposed to help.
  — Ruth S. Barrett, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2020
• In Wanda's case, her anguish over Vision's death does not relent and her maladaptive coping has consequences not only for her own healing, but for everyone around her.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2021
• Stuck in a heightened state of alarm, many individuals have developed a sort of happiness anxiety, which is the mind’s maladaptive way of protecting us from being hurt or let down in the future.
  — Amy Blankson, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• Like Michelangelo's David emerging from a block of marble, many cognitive advances arise during a sculpting process in which unused or maladaptive brain cell connections are pruned away.
  — Jay N. Giedd, Scientific American, 1 May 2016
• This worked well for our evolutionary predecessors, but what was once adaptive is now often maladaptive.
  — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• But in the case of the allergy patients, that memory apparently becomes maladaptive.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2018
• Nowadays, when fried chicken comes in buckets and can be delivered to your door within the hour, the environment’s ability to stimulate eating can be maladaptive and detrimental to one’s health.
  — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2021
• Their hunger persists as maladaptive coping mechanisms cannot be satisfied.
  — Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
• Psychedelic therapy enabled me to see maladaptive patterns that had formed since childhood, and in combination with talk therapy, enabled me to change them.
  — Louis Metzger Iv, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• Taking pleasure in negative emotions might seem morally suspect or maladaptive, a case of pointless narcissism.
  — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2022
• With chronic loneliness, that stress response gets stuck and becomes disadvantageous — similar to the way in which anxiety can shift a helpful fear response to a maladaptive mental illness.
  — Dana G. Smith, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• When justice is sought in the wake of a scam, skepticism is positioned as the norm, while gullibility is treated as a maladaptive, pathological, deviant form of socioeconomic being.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• These maladaptive neurological changes can persist long after the alcohol use stops.
  — Jamie Smolen, chicagotribune.com, 23 Dec. 2017
• Through that lens, vampire bats’ relentless congregating might seem maladaptive.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2020
• Pond’s group, these 13 individually maladaptive changes might be adaptive when present all together.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2022
• Researchers believe that kleptomania may be a maladaptive response to a depressive mood state and the feelings of guilt and shame that follow instances of compulsive stealing can intensify these feelings of depression.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• A possible maladaptive behavior according to Joyce, this loud trumpeting has the adverse effect of attracting passerby males.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 2 May 2017
• So, for example, post-traumatic stress disorder is a maladaptive memory.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024