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Recent Examples of delusional
Madharaasi is a psychological action thriller film about an operation against a gun-syndicate and the encounter with a delusional patient.
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Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
To be a quarterback means being selfish and sometimes delusional.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
An expert called by Bixby's lawyers at last month's hearing said the isolation of prison has only made his beliefs more delusional and that Bixby is stuck in his mindset.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
D’Annunzio jeers at her delusional belief that Il Duce will fund her dream project of a theater not for the wealthy cultural and intellectual elite, but for the Great War’s widows, orphans and veterans.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
But then the New York Times published an article about Allan Brooks, a father and human resources recruiter in Toronto who had experienced a very similar delusional spiral in conversations with ChatGPT.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Not even the most delusional Pakistanis believe that the country has any oil reserves.
—Mohammed Hanif, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
To be a quarterback means being selfish and sometimes delusional.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
An expert called by Bixby's lawyers at last month's hearing said the isolation of prison has only made his beliefs more delusional and that Bixby is stuck in his mindset.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
D’Annunzio jeers at her delusional belief that Il Duce will fund her dream project of a theater not for the wealthy cultural and intellectual elite, but for the Great War’s widows, orphans and veterans.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
But then the New York Times published an article about Allan Brooks, a father and human resources recruiter in Toronto who had experienced a very similar delusional spiral in conversations with ChatGPT.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Not even the most delusional Pakistanis believe that the country has any oil reserves.
—Mohammed Hanif, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for delusional
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In conclusion, several factors, starting from the extent of our exposure to horoscopes to illusory correlation, can play a role in your astrology beliefs, but those are not necessarily the same factors that influence the strength of your relationship, as the aforementioned study shows.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Auctions are built on an illusory symmetry of hope.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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In Spark, the effect is hallucinatory, resulting in a type of hyperreality that, to me, constitutes an interesting representation of the intellectual experience of femininity.—
Rachel Cusk,
New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2025
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Alternating between 2004 and the early 1980s, evoked in hallucinatory, grainy flashbacks, Romería achingly dramatizes the processes of creating new memories and holding onto fleeting ones.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Aug. 2025
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Occasionally held back by a very mid-'00s aesthetic and stylistic choices that come across second-rate David Lynch, No Smoking is nonetheless an effectively paranoid adaptation of King for another culture.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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The threat is enough to make Cherry paranoid.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.—
Hillary Kelly,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2024
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To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
5 July 2022
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According to court and police record, police were conducting a welfare check on Brown, where he was diagnosed as schizophrenic.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Hawley worked from a similar playbook with Legion, whose apparently schizophrenic superhero filtered a fast-evolving cultural conversation around mental illness through a psychedelic kaleidoscope, and especially Fargo.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Aug. 2025
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People can deliberately cultivate more conscientiousness, boost their sociability or soften their neurotic edges.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The actor who lets loose the most on The Studio is Kravitz, who sheds her cool-girl persona for something much more neurotic and career-minded.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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The episode ends with a surreal, graphic deepfake scene of a totally nude Donald Trump stumbling around a desert.—
Nick Marx,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
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The flashbacks of a city shut down, subways closed, and the surreal journey home.—
Ayisha Miracle Mendez,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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“Delusional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delusional. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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