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as in internal
of or relating to the mind
a funny mental image made him laugh out loud
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as in psychotic
having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind
humane treatment of mental patients
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Recent Examples of mental
Your work/life balance could leave a lot to be desired, and remaining so unbalanced won't be good for your mental state in the long run.
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Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023
Like Didion’s work, Bridgers’s lyrics capture her surroundings and mental state with rigorous precision.
—Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
This being a competition, the endurance racers will also have to push through their hunger pangs, injuries and mental anguish to beat one another to the end.
—Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
Zwerner suffered permanent bodily injuries, physical pain, mental anguish, lost earnings and other damages, the lawsuit states.
—Denise Lavoie, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
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Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023
Like Didion’s work, Bridgers’s lyrics capture her surroundings and mental state with rigorous precision.
—Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
This being a competition, the endurance racers will also have to push through their hunger pangs, injuries and mental anguish to beat one another to the end.
—Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
Zwerner suffered permanent bodily injuries, physical pain, mental anguish, lost earnings and other damages, the lawsuit states.
—Denise Lavoie, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mental
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Turkey can remain pink even after cooking to a safe minimum internal temperature of 165 degrees.Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
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Helly Hansen’s two-layer LIFA merino tech, which sandwiches an internal synthetic layer with an external merino layer, allows folks who are wool-sensitive to experience the material’s benefits.Outside Editors, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
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The counselor also told police Trotman had had a previous psychotic break in which he was found wandering the woods.Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
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Lewis prescribed Price anti-psychotic medication after a mental health referral Sept. 1.Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2023
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Even as a child, Lila possessed a strange, quasi-supernatural inner force that emerged in moments of rebuke or fear.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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Ask Questions To Build Inner Intelligence Honing skills that breed inner intelligence is key in today’s world, regardless of where you or your teams are located.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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With his shock of spiky hair and adrenaline rushes, Smith turns a corporate villain into a lunatic new-wave frontman.Charles McNultyTheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
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The first personality is the lunatic, chaotic artist, with no limits.John Bleasdale, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
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Also standard are dual-zone automatic climate control, proximity keyless entry, push-button start, interior ambient lighting, and a 12-volt power outlet.James Raia, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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In the face of tragedy, the armor protecting her interior fragility comes undone, and the same intense force of will that may or may not have exploded a copper pot or ignited fire to a poster directs itself inward.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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Your voice is insane.Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com, al, 4 Apr. 2023
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The Republican and right-wing reaction is just insane.Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
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When people are made aware of death, those systems of meaning become even more critical to their psychological functioning.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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In the 1970s, psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan developed the Self-Determination Theory (SDT), which argued that humans have three basic psychological needs—competence, autonomy and relatedness.Akin Akinpelu, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The sight of a covey of desert quail fills me with a mad, superhuman strength.Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2024
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Then, like clockwork, a bunch of Democrats got mad.Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Mental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mental. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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