How to Use paranoia in a Sentence

paranoia

noun
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  • The fifth song off the singer’s new album Guts is cheeky and steeped in self-loathing and paranoia.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The battle lines are drawn, the paranoia is growing, and the barbs are flying.
    — Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
  • And the paranoia and suspicion that would arise out of that would be TV gold.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • So paranoia is a self that is terrorized and small and naked and afraid.
    — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Of course there was a wave of paranoia when AI first began to go through its growth spurt in 2023.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The paranoia of the McCarthy era felt remote, and Mallon’s book ends in 1957.
    — Ron Nyswaner, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
  • In this case, the paranoia over TikTok may be justified – at least to a point.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • As fiction about the pandemic keeps trickling in, even the lighter books have a sense of gloom and paranoia.
    — Lisa Levy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • His father, David Arkin, an artist and writer, lost his job as a teacher amid the paranoia of the Red Scare.
    — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • The issue roiled the country, though most did not share Esper’s paranoia.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • And this form of paranoia is not limited to any one country.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 19 June 2023
  • In that respect, Shyamalan has tapped right into the paranoia of our age.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Delta 8, on the other hand, is said to produce a milder high, with less anxiety and paranoia.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a lot more surveillance paranoia in this one, no?
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • On Tuesday, Roberts argued that paranoia toward the Dodgers is overblown.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But the American historical psyche — the nasty, lurid stuff, the paranoia, the paradox, the farce, the terror, the truth.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • No more shadow depth charts, cakes or practice-video paranoia.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 3 Sep. 2023
  • And in a revamped final scene, Shields bears down on the harm done to women by male paranoia, the cure for which must be liberation.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • And collaborating with the Nazis by taking on the duties of a tattooist to stay alive caused Sokolow a life of guilt, fear and paranoia.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2024
  • While some of this might be about buying a cute keychain for a wallet, there’s a deeper paranoia that cash stuffing speaks to.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 12 May 2023
  • With all the unsettling talk these days about AI, this particular species of villainy lends the film a new-style dose of pulp paranoia.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2023
  • There were some kiddos for whom nothing worked to assuage the paranoia; in a small town, everything is a trigger.
    — Men's Health, 28 Nov. 2022
  • But the novelty of quiet quitting soon wore off and was replaced by paranoia.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 11 July 2023
  • If only paranoia about being replaced by non-humans had stayed within the confines of the plot.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 21 June 2023
  • As paranoia eased, women began to come back to work at Jane, determined to carry on.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Remember not to approach life with paranoia; discernment is not meant to be a scary thing.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2022
  • And Black men in hip-hop exist in an endless loop of roller-coaster success, hazy self-worth, bullets, fame and its cousin, paranoia.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 8 Aug. 2023
  • As a person addicted to meth for 11 years, my poor choices led to extreme paranoia.
    — Ed Kressy, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Toni felt better, proud of herself for overcoming her paranoia.
    — Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
  • Guilt, suspicion, and paranoia bleed into their friendship as a psychological battle of wills gives way to a darker side of the maternal instinct.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 9 July 2024

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