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Recent Examples of neuroticism
People who had high neuroticism scores were most likely to experience the highest levels of stress reduction through exercise.
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The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2025
Meanwhile, neuroticism was associated with worse heart rate recovery, lower enjoyment of sustained or observed workouts, and less consistent self-monitoring (e.g., skipping heart rate logging).
—New Atlas, 8 July 2025
Conscientiousness is one of the Big Five personality traits that predict academic success (alongside extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, and neuroticism).
—Jasmine Mote, Scientific American, 7 July 2025
Interestingly, participants consistently struggled with identifying openness and neuroticism—two traits that were actually misidentified more often than not.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
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The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2025
Meanwhile, neuroticism was associated with worse heart rate recovery, lower enjoyment of sustained or observed workouts, and less consistent self-monitoring (e.g., skipping heart rate logging).
—New Atlas, 8 July 2025
Conscientiousness is one of the Big Five personality traits that predict academic success (alongside extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, and neuroticism).
—Jasmine Mote, Scientific American, 7 July 2025
Interestingly, participants consistently struggled with identifying openness and neuroticism—two traits that were actually misidentified more often than not.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neuroticism
Noun
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Be the steward of your brand's weirdness, edge and truth, and then use AI to make those elements louder, not safer.—
Amy Packard Berry,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The film is a mess, opaque in its argument and tiring in its effortful weirdness, and yet in its best moments has a hypnotic pull.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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The next step can be ordering imaging of your liver like an ultrasound or CT to look for evidence of abnormalities like fat accumulation in your liver.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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King was later diagnosed with a heart abnormality that required her to undergo surgery.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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Friends drove him home and tended to him during the episode, which caused Ronson to contemplate his burgeoning addiction.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
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However, for some, gambling is an addiction that can ruin lives and families.—
Simone Jasper,
Miami Herald,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Empsall’s small church offers classes on Christian resistance to fascism and how to reject White Christian nationalism as a perversion of Christianity.—
Liam Adams,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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With respect to gender roles, for instance, the aggressive zombies incarnate a warped and rotted form of traditional masculinity, a perversion of the warrior ideal.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025
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The Twitterverse was still taking shape at the time, so widespread snark and predisposition to derision was not yet pop culture’s default setting.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
13 Sep. 2025
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These can include a lack of proper socialization as puppies, past traumatic experiences, pain or illness, or even genetic predisposition.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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On the other hand, balanced searching involves looking for both positive and negative traits for a more complete evaluation.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Still, coaches and teammates in Brooklyn praised his professionalism and defensive energy, two traits that could help him make a case for a limited role.—
Grant Afseth,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Neuroticism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neuroticism. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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