obsessive-compulsive

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Recent Examples of obsessive-compulsive Similarly, a 2019 study in JAMA Psychiatry followed 579 New Zealand children over three decades and found that children exposed to lead were more likely to grow up to have anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, or substance abuse issues. Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025 All of it stems from the obsessive-compulsive disorder Gonzalez has lived with his entire life, from childhood to now being a kicker for the Washington Commanders. Stephen Whyno, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025 Zane Gonzalez, the Washington Commanders kicker, has gone viral on social media for his obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). David Oliver, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025 Zane Gonzalez is opening up about his relationship with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) after television cameras captured his pre-kick routine during this past weekend's wild-card round win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Chantz Martin, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for obsessive-compulsive
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Adjective
  • That said, it was recently announced that Rick Hoffman will also reprise his Suits role as the neurotic Louis Litt.
    Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Posey, meanwhile, played the role of a young urban professional who, along with her equally neurotic husband, owns a Weimaraner.
    Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • That’s certainly what the Holland trailer feels like, putting Nicole Kidman at the center of a paranoid satire about a seemingly picture-perfect Michigan homemaker whose husband (Matthew Macfadyen) is up to … something.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Or is Julia, as the men in her life keep telling her, just being paranoid?
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.
    Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • After all, Milla is a true believer who goes tragically wrong, not a sociopathic manipulator.
    Alan Levinovitz, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Everyone else who isn’t a sociopathic weirdo will be tuned in to the Big Game.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In the past, Jamil has openly discussed her own journey recovering from anorexia and disordered eating.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Thus did the conservative loose cannonballs come eventually to dominate the GOP—and define our disordered political era.
    Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made by History, TIME, 10 June 2024
Adjective
  • Oliver was adorably giggly on his 20th Colbert appearance, the pair seemingly delirious from having to cover one of the worst moments in American history.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
  • His tale is sad, delirious, inspired and often uproariously funny — though the jokes are on us.
    Devika Girish, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • One of the body’s own cells becomes damaged or corrupted and then multiplies to create copies of its aberrant self.
    Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
  • This not only paints a wider picture of his life and interests outside his Milan office, but frames his medical specialties as part of this natural world — his focus is the nature of human bodies, desires and impulses — rather than as something aberrant, as in the minds of detractors.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Everything feels so uptight these days and few people seem to be amusing themselves.
    Julian Randall, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Maybe being a micromanager and a little uptight weren’t such horrible things after all.
    Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025

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