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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
Orlok’s villainy most visibly manifests itself through Ellen’s mania, and as such, Eggers seems to be underlining the themes Stoker and Murnau once played with: Dracula’s brazen seductiveness and overt sexuality, in comparison with the chaste, Christian goodliness of his foes.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
There is no denying the leopard-print mania that has taken over both the street style scene and the runways.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
After Peyton Manning repeatedly dismissed offers to set him up in any number of NFL booths, the ESPN gang in 2021 hashed out a deal with his Omaha Productions shingle that would spark a mania for alternative telecasts.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024
And in this year’s ten episodes, From just kept careening forward, giving its ensemble opportunity after opportunity to play the fear, mania, desperation, loyalty, and love that comes out of surviving horrible things together.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
There is no denying the leopard-print mania that has taken over both the street style scene and the runways.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
After Peyton Manning repeatedly dismissed offers to set him up in any number of NFL booths, the ESPN gang in 2021 hashed out a deal with his Omaha Productions shingle that would spark a mania for alternative telecasts.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024
And in this year’s ten episodes, From just kept careening forward, giving its ensemble opportunity after opportunity to play the fear, mania, desperation, loyalty, and love that comes out of surviving horrible things together.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mania
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Heming Willis, who has become a vocal advocate for the caregiver community since Willis' frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, also posted a tribute to Moore on her Instagram stories.—
Luke Chinman,
People.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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Shannon Amos was not able to provide documentation of a diagnosis of dementia.—
Elizabeth Maline,
NBC News,
6 Jan. 2025
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And that became my obsession during the writing of the script.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Jan. 2025
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Its power has been blown out of proportion precisely through the obsession, devotion, fixation through which it is regarded.—
Marlene Engelhorn,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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Weeks later, more insanity ensued, the 50th home run ball selling for $4.39 million at auction, the highest price ever paid for any ball in any sport.—
Bill Plaschke,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Dec. 2024
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Germain, who teaches law at Syracuse University in New York, said that, given the weight of evidence, insanity is likely the only defense that will work.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Dec. 2024
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This lack of preparedness mirrors the COVID-19 hysteria and reactionary approach whereby lockdowns and mask mandates were instituted only after thousands of Americans had already been infected and hospitalized.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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At first, anti-Napster sentiment echoed the hysteria of the nineteen-seventies and eighties around the prospect of home taping killing the record industry.—
Hua Hsu,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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Elsewhere, players might enjoy body-replicating madness, brutal climbing simulators, and freewheeling adventure through a magical realist take on the Deep South.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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He is asked by RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake — a voice of reason in the madness — to recall the B-52 bombers that will end civilization.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
8 Jan. 2025
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At the time, Joel’s mother was hospitalized with schizophrenia.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
11 Jan. 2025
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Gradually, the whole field of schizophrenia began to shift.—
Ellen Barry,
New York Times,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Mania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mania. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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