How to Use paranoia in a Sentence
paranoia
noun
- I had to admit that my fears were just paranoia.
- She was diagnosed with delusional paranoia.
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The fifth song off the singer’s new album Guts is cheeky and steeped in self-loathing and paranoia.
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Erica Gonzales,
ELLE,
7 Sep. 2023
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The battle lines are drawn, the paranoia is growing, and the barbs are flying.
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Vulture,
2 Mar. 2023
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The year is 1954, and McCarthy’s Red Scare has stirred paranoia throughout the land.
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Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Aug. 2024
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And the paranoia and suspicion that would arise out of that would be TV gold.
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Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2023
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And for all his paranoia, Mr. Ailes failed to see how that might happen.
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New York Times,
5 Feb. 2022
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Besides, there’s one more kernel of truth in the swirl of paranoia.
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Marina Koren,
The Atlantic,
12 Oct. 2024
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So paranoia is a self that is terrorized and small and naked and afraid.
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CBS News,
29 Mar. 2023
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Of course there was a wave of paranoia when AI first began to go through its growth spurt in 2023.
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Chloe Berger,
Fortune,
25 Mar. 2024
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The paranoia of the McCarthy era felt remote, and Mallon’s book ends in 1957.
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Ron Nyswaner,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2024
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In this case, the paranoia over TikTok may be justified – at least to a point.
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Peter Suciu,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2023
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As fiction about the pandemic keeps trickling in, even the lighter books have a sense of gloom and paranoia.
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Lisa Levy,
Washington Post,
17 Aug. 2023
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His father, David Arkin, an artist and writer, lost his job as a teacher amid the paranoia of the Red Scare.
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Carmel Dagan,
Variety,
30 June 2023
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But meth users may resist such treatment, spurred by paranoia brought on by the drug.
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Ray Stern,
USA TODAY,
11 Sep. 2024
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The issue roiled the country, though most did not share Esper’s paranoia.
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Alice George,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Nov. 2023
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There’s a bit of paranoia and caricature in this account of the bros with their golf clubs.
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Max Holleran,
The New Republic,
27 Sep. 2022
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And this form of paranoia is not limited to any one country.
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Ben Croll,
Variety,
19 June 2023
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In that respect, Shyamalan has tapped right into the paranoia of our age.
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A.a. Dowd,
Chron,
1 Feb. 2023
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Delta 8, on the other hand, is said to produce a milder high, with less anxiety and paranoia.
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Amber Smith,
Discover Magazine,
5 Sep. 2023
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There’s a lot more surveillance paranoia in this one, no?
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Los Angeles Times,
30 Nov. 2022
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As the tribe continues to answer the host’s questions, there’s paranoia all over their faces.
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Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
2 Oct. 2024
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On Tuesday, Roberts argued that paranoia toward the Dodgers is overblown.
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Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Aug. 2023
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But the American historical psyche — the nasty, lurid stuff, the paranoia, the paradox, the farce, the terror, the truth.
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Wesley Morris,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2024
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She’s doing the work in therapy, trying to let go of the fear, paranoia, regret, and anger that the man known as the Boogeyman caused her.
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Shannon Carlin,
Time,
14 Oct. 2022
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That perfectly captures the sense not just of paranoia but the helplessness that comes with it.
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Washington Post,
17 Feb. 2022
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In terms of side effects, the worst that can happen is some paranoia or anxiety.
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The Salt Lake Tribune,
8 June 2022
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Still, even with the liberalized law, a touch of paranoia may remain for some.
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Heather Chen,
CNN,
9 June 2022
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His mother said that in a state of paranoia, Longoria believed the man was going to hurt him.
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Dallas News,
1 Sep. 2022
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Throughout the conference, anti-government paranoia and misinformation about pandemic policies were strong on the wing.
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Michael A. Hiltzik,
The Mercury News,
19 Oct. 2024
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