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as in dementia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
that form of mania often manifests itself in excessive and often incoherent talkativeness
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as in obsession
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
his wife was baffled and amused by his mania for old comic books
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Recent Examples of mania
Orlok’s villainy most visibly manifests itself through Ellen’s mania, and as such, Eggers seems to be underlining the themes Stoker and Murnau once played with: Dracula’s brazen seductiveness and overt sexuality, in comparison with the chaste, Christian goodliness of his foes.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
There is no denying the leopard-print mania that has taken over both the street style scene and the runways.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
After Peyton Manning repeatedly dismissed offers to set him up in any number of NFL booths, the ESPN gang in 2021 hashed out a deal with his Omaha Productions shingle that would spark a mania for alternative telecasts.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024
And in this year’s ten episodes, From just kept careening forward, giving its ensemble opportunity after opportunity to play the fear, mania, desperation, loyalty, and love that comes out of surviving horrible things together.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
There is no denying the leopard-print mania that has taken over both the street style scene and the runways.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
After Peyton Manning repeatedly dismissed offers to set him up in any number of NFL booths, the ESPN gang in 2021 hashed out a deal with his Omaha Productions shingle that would spark a mania for alternative telecasts.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024
And in this year’s ten episodes, From just kept careening forward, giving its ensemble opportunity after opportunity to play the fear, mania, desperation, loyalty, and love that comes out of surviving horrible things together.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mania
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Advertisement Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s triumphant L.A. debut coincides with forthcoming doc about his dementia Nightclub drag shows will always hold a special place in Delta’s heart.—
Candace Hansen,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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With 80% of dementia cases projected to be in the Global South by 2050, international collaboration remains crucial.—
Tarun Galagali,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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And that became my obsession during the writing of the script.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Jan. 2025
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The teaser shows Joe (Penn Badgley) returning to New York City, walking through Mooney's Bookstore and reminiscing about his first obsession, Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail).—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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This insanity aside, allowing states to override federal enforcement priorities guarantees that the federal government will have to release or fail to arrest serious criminals to make way for peaceful people targeted by states with aggressive attorneys general.—
David J Bier,
Orange County Register,
19 Jan. 2025
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Toward the end of his frenetic set, though, DaBaby doubled down on the insanity.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Jan. 2025
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Also deeply familiar is the tabloid hysteria, which has since become our universal ALL-CAPS way of communicating.—
Glynnis MacNicol,
Rolling Stone,
26 Jan. 2025
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Ellen is a more passive counterpart to Thomasin, the teenage heroine played by fellow big-eyed blonde Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch, in that she’s also been pathologized by the strictures of her era, her psychic sensitivities interpreted by those around her as signs of hysteria or mental illness.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
22 Jan. 2025
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Amid the madness and tension of the most recent presidential-election campaign, a wild form of clickbait video started flying around the political internet.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2025
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That includes hunting and other kinds of macho madness that Blake rebels against, a divide that never really got healed and a father/son bond that was completely broken when Grady simply disappeared.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
15 Jan. 2025
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The police said that the stranger was Waldo Mejia, a man with a history of schizophrenia.—
Lola Fadulu,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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There have been some studies suggesting that GLP-1 medications reduce symptoms of schizophrenia in animals.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Mania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mania. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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