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Noun
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This new obsession manifested itself in strange ways.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
The Athletic,
18 Mar. 2025 -
Yet these devices can lead to an unhealthy obsession with achieving perfect slumber, says Dr. David Benavides, a sleep medicine specialist at Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham.—
Angela Haupt,
TIME,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Studies suggest that mosaicism is common in embryos, and that even those with multiple chromosomal abnormalities can result in healthy, full-term pregnancies—albeit less often than euploid embryos.—
Jamie Ducharme,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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It is caused by an abnormality in a gene called PLA2G6.—
Taylor Grothe,
Parents,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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In the military Hackman served as a DJ and newscaster for his unit’s radio station, despite a phobia about microphones.—
Carmel Dagan,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2025
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Maybe your motive was to overcome a particular phobia, say, or heal from a really bad breakup.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Age and Memory: The hippocampus plays an important role in memory and is one of the brain regions most affected by senile dementia.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
21 June 2017
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Patients with vascular dementia had the highest risk of contracting COVID-19 — with odds more than three times higher — followed by patients with presenile dementia, senile dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and post-traumatic dementia.—
Julie Washington,
cleveland,
3 Mar. 2021
Noun
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But autism isn’t a mental illness, and neither Ohio’s nor Kentucky’s laws apply to people with autism, instead listing diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder and delusional disorder as possible exemptions.—
Alex Brizee,
Idaho Statesman,
5 Mar. 2025
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Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Odell was so easy to gaslight and discredit, but the facts of her body, and of the child, could not be denied.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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In looking back at the history of Emtech, the colt who suffered a catastrophic breakdown in Saturday’s eighth race, it was discovered that he was once placed on the Veterinarian’s List because of unsoundness.—
John Cherwa,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Sep. 2019
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Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes near the Oroville Dam, because of the threat of imminent flooding due to structural unsoundness.—
Mercury News Readers,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2017
Noun
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The guests are just monkeys with delusions of grandeur and civilization.—
Joe Joyce,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
14 Mar. 2025
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The series, produced by AMC Studios, is set within the delusion bubble of Silicon Valley.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Dementedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dementedness. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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