senile dementia

Definition of senile dementianext

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Noun
  • The lifetime cost of dementia care alone now exceeds $400,000 per person.
    John Samuels, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • However, the study was observational and does not prove that caffeine directly prevents dementia.
    Lauren Pastrana, CBS News, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • But their loving, attentive mother soon began displaying signs of schizophrenia.
    Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026
  • After Nijinsky began to show signs of schizophrenia, this mask, or persona, grew disturbed.
    Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Even at its peak, #MeToo felt seismic precisely because the movement was an aberration from the historical norm; nearly a decade later, that norm has reasserted itself with inertia on its side.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 30 June 2026
  • Yet the notion of cutting corners is an aberration to Italian leaders.
    Sally Percy, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • These are the shows that capture our post-9/11 paranoia through science fiction, or the fear of economic collapse through the zombie apocalypse, or our obsession with individuality through 1960s advertising.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • With paranoia multiplying around him, anything could trigger the end.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
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“Senile dementia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senile%20dementia. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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