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Recent Examples of schizoid
The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.
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Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
Why not make a of couple bucks off your other 21st-century schizoid man?
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
Less than 1% of individuals develop schizoid personality disorder.
—Jessica Migala, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
There's no way to prevent schizoid or other personality disorders.
—Jessica Migala, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
For example, a mathematician with a schizoid personality might be perfectly comfortable calculating in solitude.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023
Acting isn't schizoid like that.
—Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 13 Mar. 2022
She was described in the ratings as the highest scorer on paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, avoidant and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder of all the characters (see figure 2).
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2012
Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
Why not make a of couple bucks off your other 21st-century schizoid man?
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
Less than 1% of individuals develop schizoid personality disorder.
—Jessica Migala, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
There's no way to prevent schizoid or other personality disorders.
—Jessica Migala, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
For example, a mathematician with a schizoid personality might be perfectly comfortable calculating in solitude.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023
Acting isn't schizoid like that.
—Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 13 Mar. 2022
She was described in the ratings as the highest scorer on paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, avoidant and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder of all the characters (see figure 2).
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizoid
Adjective
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Risk-takers were viewed as highly neurotic and susceptible to ads that pricked their fears, Cambridge records show.—
Corey G. Johnson,
ProPublica,
5 Feb. 2025
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Gerber gives quirky life to Jane Jr.’s neurotic sensitivity.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2025
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That becomes a great way to place him in a paranoid thriller, which is a genre that’s about mistrust of institutions and individuals.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
14 Feb. 2025
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The process of selecting the next pope is turned into a taught, twisty, paranoid thriller.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Everyone else who isn’t a sociopathic weirdo will be tuned in to the Big Game.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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DiCaprio starred in the film as the sociopathic slave owner Calvin Candie.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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SSRIs are first choice treatments for mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).7 Lexapro is available in tablet and liquid forms.—
Megan Nunn,
Verywell Health,
12 Feb. 2025
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Similarly, a 2019 study in JAMA Psychiatry followed 579 New Zealand children over three decades and found that children exposed to lead were more likely to grow up to have anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, or substance abuse issues.—
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In the past, Jamil has openly discussed her own journey recovering from anorexia and disordered eating.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
27 Dec. 2024
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Thus did the conservative loose cannonballs come eventually to dominate the GOP—and define our disordered political era.—
Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made by History,
TIME,
10 June 2024
Adjective
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Rankin’s formative movies usually milked a faux-biopic format and played like delirious, black-and-white fever dreams, smothered with generous amounts of Absurdism pushed past its limits and self-deprecating Canadian in-jokes.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 Feb. 2025
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The money goes to the family of the 10-year-old boy who corralled the ball in the right-field bleachers at Dodger Stadium amid the delirious celebration after Freeman homered with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th inning, and the Dodgers one out away from defeat.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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This not only paints a wider picture of his life and interests outside his Milan office, but frames his medical specialties as part of this natural world — his focus is the nature of human bodies, desires and impulses — rather than as something aberrant, as in the minds of detractors.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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Weissman’s characterization of Mobutu’s rule as something aberrant during Africa’s first three decades of independence is not accurate.—
Herman J. Cohen,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Dec. 2014
Adjective
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When the soil or plant material is disturbed, tiny spores can be released into the air.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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After Cornell's burial on the farm, a disturbed Dr. Wilbur revealed to Durfee what Cornell had told him: Avery had assaulted her at a camp meeting that August.—
Melissa Gray,
NPR,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Schizoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizoid. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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