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Recent Examples of obsessive-compulsive
Luke Combs is sharing his struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder, hoping to inspire others with the same condition.
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Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a disorder where people have uncontrollable and recurring thoughts or repetitive behaviors, or both.
—Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025
Also, things like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or social anxiety can make a person do things like this.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
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
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Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a disorder where people have uncontrollable and recurring thoughts or repetitive behaviors, or both.
—Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025
Also, things like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or social anxiety can make a person do things like this.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsessive-compulsive
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The neurotic inner monologue can take up only so much of the page.—
Hanna Rosin,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2025
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Étoile’s initially unwieldy ensemble also includes Tobias Bell (Maisel’s Gideon Glick), a fragile, neurotic American choreographer whose unorthodox style challenges tradition-loving French audiences.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
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The government’s determination to wrap the matter up neatly relegated the bulk of voters to the paranoid fringe.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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Last week, Fox News Digital released video footage of a Kentucky State Police (KSP) investigator and two troopers questioning a paranoid Stines in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
19 May 2025
Adjective
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The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.—
Rhoda Feng,
Washington Post,
14 Apr. 2024
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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
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There was the rich shopaholic Desperate Housewife; an amorous painter; a sociopathic hitman who was a whiz at pub trivia; a grumpy old man; a schizophrenic; a kids basketball coach; a magician; a dominatrix; a medieval history professor fond of LARP-ing; and a ballroom dancer, to name a few.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 Apr. 2025
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Pair that with viewers lusting after a sociopathic stalker, fantasizing about Joe's killer looks.—
Anika Reed,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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In more severe cases, this ongoing pattern may erode a parent’s relationship with food, leading to emotional or disordered eating that feels increasingly difficult to name, let alone break.—
Christine Michel Carter,
Parents,
20 May 2025
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Consequently, disordered labor disputes have added to the sense of lawlessness and have worsened the economic decline.—
Lindsay Benstead,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Feb. 2013
Adjective
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Meanwhile, Vancouver’s players sprinted to the southwest corner of the stands, where a few hundred Whitecaps fans were delirious.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
1 May 2025
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When the injuries stack up and the character gets delirious, Brunson really starts cooking.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
4 May 2025
Adjective
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John S. Tobey,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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Back in 2022, researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany showed that administering CAR T-cell therapy to five people with severe lupus could completely remove the aberrant B cells, sending all of the patients into remission.—
Juergen Eckhardt,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Emily Gilmore uptight is still funny, but Emily Gilmore letting loose is a real sight.—
Marianne Eloise,
Vulture,
10 May 2025
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The Oscars are your beloved but slightly uptight grandma; the Golden Globes are your fun cousin who sometimes gets a little too sloppy at parties, and the SAG Awards are your cool young aunt who knows how to have a good time but always keeps it classy.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Obsessive-compulsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obsessive-compulsive. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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