How to Use bipolar in a Sentence

bipolar

adjective
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  • Heaney has been the most bipolar of the Rangers’ starters.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • And there’s a point in late teens that usually is the time that one becomes bipolar.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
  • And my husband and I have a daughter, Courtney, who is 16 years sober and bipolar.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The Celtics never trailed in the ultimate game of a bipolar series.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2022
  • Robin Roberts that she had been diagnosed with bipolar in 2011.
    — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2021
  • No longer tonally bipolar, the film is one man’s vision, for better or worse.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The Spartans have had a bipolar season thus far – good to great in some games and downright terrible in others.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The bipolar design refers to a current collector that is shared by both a cathode and anode.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2023
  • And bipolar is a condition that can come with great assets, Michalak said.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Therapy can help people come to terms with the challenges of living with bipolar.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Lapp was bipolar and had a history of mental health problems.
    — Matthew Barakat, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
  • And while this was happening, my mother, who's bipolar, was leaving voicemails telling me not to trust my friends.
    — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • With the onset of menopause and the bipolar, her libido had dropped dramatically.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Along with his bipolar disease, the Days of Our Lives star said his doctor warned him about the risks of returning to alcohol after surgery.
    — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • It’s been fun to share my journey with bipolar diagnosis, and depression and open up on stage.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Some experts say China is the only real contender here, and that a bipolar world in which the US and China compete is inevitable.
    — Angela Dewan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The footage of West discussing his addiction to Percocet and his bouts with bipolar episodes is achingly honest.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Freedman got out of the car and explained to them what was happening — her son was bipolar, not taking his medication and in need of help — while Coster sat in the car, the lawsuit states.
    — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Tequila Brown, 33, who has lupus and is bipolar, is still receiving support two years after the birth of her second son, Levi.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2022
  • Pointing to the size of China’s economy, many analysts have declared the world bipolar.
    — Stephen G. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Rosenthal and his colleagues collected enough for a study of 29 bipolar patients in Maryland.
    — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Clapp invested in a bipolar ionization system for the HVAC.
    — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 17 Nov. 2020
  • For example, only 14 percent of Indians expect a bipolar world in ten years in which they might be forced to choose between Chinese- and U.S.-dominated blocs.
    — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Townsend, 40, suffered from bipolar depression and schizophrenia, according to the suit.
    — oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Research has found that lack of sleep increases the risk of a bipolar episode, particularly manias.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Her bipolar manic periods felt like an ecstatic embrace of the world.
    — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Such things didn’t even compute until my friend was diagnosed with bipolar (likely from putting fist-size holes in bad guys for a year straight with an enhanced battle rifle).
    — Bryan Box, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
  • In Georgia, a college student died after he was placed in a restraint chair following his arrest during a bipolar episode in 2015.
    — al, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The documents note that seven tablets of his bipolar medication, as well as pills for his diabetes and hypothyroidism, were sent to the housing unit.
    — Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Her maternal grandfather, a bipolar Texas Lothario who was married at least 10 times, was shot in the stomach by one of his wives, and her maternal great-grandfather killed a man with a hay hook.
    — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022

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