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Recent Examples of delusional
Grief experts are wary of these potential harms, too — especially since several major AI companies faced wrongful death lawsuits claiming AI chatbots encouraged self-harm or pushed users into delusional mental states.
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Ella Chakarian,
Rolling Stone,
28 June 2026
In an interview with NPR, Wolff said neighbors, family, and teachers all agreed that Saldaño was sometimes delusional and unable to understand such simple directions as how to cross the street without being hit by a car.
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Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
22 June 2026
And 15 percent reported that their patients developed delusional thinking associated with the AI use.
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Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
18 June 2026
Everyone's favorite hideous ogre and delusional donkey are finally reunited.
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Derek Lawrence,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 June 2026
There are a lot of delusional people involved in this, too.
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Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
16 June 2026
The press was its usual caustic self this weekend, filled with talk about delusional investors who will have a hard lesson to learn.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
14 June 2026
Coffin diagnosed Murekezi with stimulant use disorder and schizoaffective disorder, which can include delusional and paranoid thoughts and auditory and visual hallucinations.
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Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
8 June 2026
As Wilson faltered, the confidence that fueled him early in his career came off as delusional to his critics.
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Mike Sando,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
Ella Chakarian,
Rolling Stone,
28 June 2026
In an interview with NPR, Wolff said neighbors, family, and teachers all agreed that Saldaño was sometimes delusional and unable to understand such simple directions as how to cross the street without being hit by a car.
—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
22 June 2026
And 15 percent reported that their patients developed delusional thinking associated with the AI use.
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Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
18 June 2026
Everyone's favorite hideous ogre and delusional donkey are finally reunited.
—
Derek Lawrence,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 June 2026
There are a lot of delusional people involved in this, too.
—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
16 June 2026
The press was its usual caustic self this weekend, filled with talk about delusional investors who will have a hard lesson to learn.
—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
14 June 2026
Coffin diagnosed Murekezi with stimulant use disorder and schizoaffective disorder, which can include delusional and paranoid thoughts and auditory and visual hallucinations.
—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
8 June 2026
As Wilson faltered, the confidence that fueled him early in his career came off as delusional to his critics.
—
Mike Sando,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for delusional
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Conversations need grounding as intuitive Moon in your 3rd House of Communication opposes illusory Neptune in your 9th House of Travel and Learning, so facts and visions compete.
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That is, real, not merely illusory, measures, so that the allure to breach peace for imagined gains is overshadowed.
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Given that the conflict between Rudd and Marcus becomes sweaty as hell to begin with (Rudd grows paranoid that Marcus will steal his spotlight), Spicer’s film would have been well-served to paper over it in favor of a few extra gags.
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She’s been attacked, her puritanical sister has landed from America, and murder is starting to feel less like a paranoid theory than a reasonable working assumption.
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Both for the islanders and for us, the summer shimmers with a hallucinatory mixture of languor and emotional speed, as summers do in childhood.
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Such hallucinatory citations are, according to judges and lawyers, troubling at a variety of levels, including for their threat to the integrity of the judicial system.
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As her life is starting, her mother suffers from an acute schizophrenic episode.
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Americans call the sport soccer, the rest of the world calls it football, and therein lies the rub, the disconnection at the heart of the schizophrenic All-American life of Gilbert Chevalier.
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This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.
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To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.
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But the real shock here is Wilde, who not only knows how to keep viewers on the back foot as a filmmaker but slides into a neurotic register and off-kilter comic timing for her high-strung hostess that fit her like rubber glove.
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In a four-hander where each performer excels in their own way, Wilde gives a neurotic tour de force.
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Things grow even more surreal when Jeffrey Epstein’s face appears in the sun, spoofing the Teletubbies, and Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and Steve Bannon take the place of Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Po, and Tinky-Winky.
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Joan Baez has inspired me beyond words, so to have her voice on this recording feels surreal.
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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.
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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.
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“Delusional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delusional. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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