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as in dementia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
that form of mania often manifests itself in excessive and often incoherent talkativeness
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as in obsession
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
his wife was baffled and amused by his mania for old comic books
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Recent Examples of mania
Arkansas transfer mania continues and Don Williams on Texas Tech
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Chip Souza, arkansasonline.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Crunchbase reported a broad slowdown in both funding volume and number of deals announced in Q3 2024, continuing a trend that has been playing out since VC mania reached its peak in 2021.
—Ray Zhou, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Turkey has been gobbled, Black Friday mania has come to an end and now, its time to get into the holiday spirit with some feel-good Christmas movies.
—Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 2 Dec. 2024
Must have been like this in Amsterdam during the great tulip mania.
—Andrew MacKie, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Chip Souza, arkansasonline.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Crunchbase reported a broad slowdown in both funding volume and number of deals announced in Q3 2024, continuing a trend that has been playing out since VC mania reached its peak in 2021.
—Ray Zhou, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Turkey has been gobbled, Black Friday mania has come to an end and now, its time to get into the holiday spirit with some feel-good Christmas movies.
—Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 2 Dec. 2024
Must have been like this in Amsterdam during the great tulip mania.
—Andrew MacKie, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mania
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Older adults whose cholesterol levels change over time might be tied to a greater risk of dementia, according to a new study.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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That pollution comes from many sources, including fossil fuel combustion and wildfire smoke, and has been linked to health risks, including a higher risk of cardiovascular problems and earlier onset of dementia.—
Alejandra Borunda,
NPR,
29 Jan. 2025
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Being a theater kid, truly great technical singers are still an obsession for me, and Paula Cole is one of the greatest technical singers in history, and that’s not an overstatement.—
Lily Moayeri,
SPIN,
30 Jan. 2025
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Now, watch a ballerina's entire routine: Shop all of our latest obsessions in one place!—
Sarah Han,
Allure,
29 Jan. 2025
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Closing arguments in the murder trial of Tamera Laws, 28, ended on Friday, Jan. 31, with her attorney saying she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity, KSAT reports.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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Despite the conspiracy theories, Lawrence was found not guilty by reason of insanity at his trial in April 1835 after just five minutes of jury deliberation.—
Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Jan. 2025
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Also deeply familiar is the tabloid hysteria, which has since become our universal ALL-CAPS way of communicating.—
Glynnis MacNicol,
Rolling Stone,
26 Jan. 2025
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Ellen is a more passive counterpart to Thomasin, the teenage heroine played by fellow big-eyed blonde Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch, in that she’s also been pathologized by the strictures of her era, her psychic sensitivities interpreted by those around her as signs of hysteria or mental illness.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
22 Jan. 2025
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Amid the madness and tension of the most recent presidential-election campaign, a wild form of clickbait video started flying around the political internet.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2025
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The harsh fact is that after Oct. 7 neither Israel nor the second Trump administration are going to have tolerance for Hamas continuing their reign of madness and delusion in Gaza.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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She was born in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of a man with schizophrenia who, in 1983, decapitated a 76-year-old woman.—
Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Aaron Esposito Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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Six months later, the FDA approved the first new drug for schizophrenia in 30 years, Cobenfy.—
Alice Park,
TIME,
24 Dec. 2024
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“Mania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mania. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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