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a very serious mental illness in which someone cannot think or behave normally and often experiences delusions
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Recent Examples of schizophrenia
Olanzapine is a drug used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia.
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
The oral drug designed to help treat adults with schizophrenia has the potential to reach peak sales of $10 billion or more annually, according to the analysts.
—Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025
The lawsuit filed just over one month after Aguilar-Hurtado’s death said she was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge on March 19, 2023, and was deemed unfit to plead or stand trial due to her schizophrenia.
—Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2025
His family told Israeli media he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
—Associated Press, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
The oral drug designed to help treat adults with schizophrenia has the potential to reach peak sales of $10 billion or more annually, according to the analysts.
—Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025
The lawsuit filed just over one month after Aguilar-Hurtado’s death said she was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge on March 19, 2023, and was deemed unfit to plead or stand trial due to her schizophrenia.
—Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2025
His family told Israeli media he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
—Associated Press, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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Regular exercise and movement amp up blood flow to the brain and slow the onset of memory loss and dementia.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Unmarried older adults in the U.S. were less likely to develop dementia than those who were married, according to a new study of 24,000 Americans.—
Carly Mallenbaum,
Axios,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That will let schizophrenia or other serious psychoses fester and increase the likelihood that one day, an individual might do something terrible to themselves or those around them.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
14 Mar. 2025
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Atypical antipsychotics – medication used to treat a range of psychiatric disorders – are often used to treat psychosis in Alzheimer’s patients even though they are not approved for that purpose.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
15 Jan. 2025
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Though Dillingham was never diagnosed, E.A. (short for Elizabeth Anne) believes her mom suffered from bipolar disorder, leading to episodes of paranoia and delusion.—
Eliza Thompson,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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And some of his problems stemmed from his own paranoia.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2025
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That may sound like a vague virtue, but Dortmund have received a lot of criticism this season — rightly — and that has bred neuroses throughout their team.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Jolie, as Maria Callas, superbly depicts a reclusive superstar in her declining days, losing her voice and coping with the neuroses of billionaire Aristotle Onassis.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
19 Dec. 2024
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Cyclothymia symptoms are less-intense hypomania and depression that do not meet clinical criteria for hypomania or depression.—
Michelle Pugle,
Verywell Health,
15 Oct. 2024
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In essays, Goodfellow details antidepressant-induced hypomania.—
Michelle Pugle,
Health,
23 Jan. 2023
Noun
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When the Marvel Cinematic Universe released its first tentpole film The Avengers in 2012, its success (grossing $1.5 million worldwide) set off a phase of superhero mania — where the least connected of films could get people to fill seats at the mere hint of a new casting or surprise cameo.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
26 Mar. 2025
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Shohei Ohtani’s presence everywhere For any Chicago sports fans old enough to remember the height of Michael Jordan’s fame and popularity, that’s what Shohei Ohtani mania looks like around Tokyo.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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Our Rox are a walking bundle of baseball insanity, Looney Tunes from the top down.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
23 Mar. 2025
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The industry’s disruption and implementation of the tax held up by court proceedings compound challenges the hotel industry faces in an era of travel uncertainty, higher building costs and economic instability.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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Regardless of the cost from the taxes themselves, the larger issue is the environment of instability, said Golding.—
Richard Nieva,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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