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as in dementia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
given powerful drugs to treat his derangement
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as in disruption
an act or instance of the order of things being disturbed
the derangement of the carefully organized event by a single freak accident
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Recent Examples of derangement
The great derangement The Indian government has ignored numerous pleas to reconsider and abandon the project and instead moved to change the facts on the ground.
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M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Tourism is a wonderful spectacle of mass derangement.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
His style is Olympian on the surface, the ironic detachment of his pictures casting a cold, curious eye at humanity’s follies and derangements.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Tourism is a wonderful spectacle of mass derangement.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
His style is Olympian on the surface, the ironic detachment of his pictures casting a cold, curious eye at humanity’s follies and derangements.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for derangement
Noun
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Cortes' dad, 82-year-old Julio Rivera, has COPD, diabetes and late-stage vascular dementia.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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The sisters have taken time to give fans a peek into their time with family in recent months, particularly after their dad's 2022 frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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The publishing market is undergoing a significant disruption, thanks to new publishing models and channels, as well as trends like the use of AI and the entry of players like Microsoft into the publishing landscape.—
Elaine Pofeldt,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The suspensions have caused major disruptions to HIV responses in dozens of countries, including Uganda, the Philippines and Tanzania, the UN agency said.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Johnson had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, the outlets reported.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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The gunman was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent decades at a mental hospital before he was released in 2016 and freed from court restrictions in 2022.—
Chris Boyette,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical disturbance in the central Atlantic for potential development this week.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
16 Sep. 2025
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Kp is an index used to indicate the severity of the global magnetic disturbances in near-Earth space, NOAA said.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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McCarthy and his cronies engineered a hysteria over left-wing ideologies and their sympathizers, encouraging tactics like loyalty oaths and provoking paranoia over a suggestion that communist spies were omnipresent in America.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Sep. 2025
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Our hearts go out to his family, but this should not have become a springboard for hysteria, partisanship, and meltdown.—
Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Sep. 2025
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Also along for the ride is Anthony Carrigan as the enigmatic Bodie, dragged into the fray as the mystery unravels into madness.—
Jen Juneau,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2025
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That’s because just two weeks separate the regular season from October madness, and MLB’s playoff race could not be more chaotic.—
Johnny Flores Jr,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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Brown had 14 prior arrests and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, his mother told the Charlotte Observer.—
Zachary Folk,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Brown is diagnosed with schizophrenia, his mother said.—
Ryan Oehrli,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Sep. 2025
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Its nuclear dimension raises the risk of a nuclear war in the Middle East at a time when the region is rocked by instability and conflict spanning Israel, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and Syria in particular.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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More instability is likely ahead.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Derangement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/derangement. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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