Example sentences for: paranoid

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  • Wittes et al reported a remarkable challenge-rechallenge experiment where a healthy male geologist took both his third and his fourth weekly mefloquine tablet together with half a bottle of whisky, and on both occasions experienced acute paranoid delusions, depression and suicidal ideation; a fellow geologist who shared the same whisky bottle (and who was taking no antimalaria medication) experienced no such effects.

  • Wrapped tightly in his Web cocoon, the First Netizen of the Church of Cyberspace suffers hourly in the service of his new media victims: the timorous who prefer the Internet to the terror of face-to-face contact; the paranoid who extrapolate "the world is out to get me" conspiracies from the detritus of politics; Game Boy boys; phone phreaks; the kids down at the Smut Shack; and the teeming millions whose idea of a reality check is consulting a Web address.

  • He suffered from what was described as "incurable paranoid delirium," and left that asylum only to enter another.

  • It's the idea that perfect competition might be just around the corner, not the competition itself, that keeps the paranoid prosperous.

  • Pipes, in a book called Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From , pinpoints the Crusades of the 11 th century--the wars waged by Europe's Christians on the Muslims who controlled Palestine--as its first mass outbreak.


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