How to Use paranoia in a Sentence

paranoia

noun

• I had to admit that my fears were just paranoia.
• She was diagnosed with delusional paranoia.
• The fifth song off the singer’s new album Guts is cheeky and steeped in self-loathing and paranoia.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2023
• The battle lines are drawn, the paranoia is growing, and the barbs are flying.
  — Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
• The year is 1954, and McCarthy’s Red Scare has stirred paranoia throughout the land.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• And the paranoia and suspicion that would arise out of that would be TV gold.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2023
• So paranoia is a self that is terrorized and small and naked and afraid.
  — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Of course there was a wave of paranoia when AI first began to go through its growth spurt in 2023.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
• The paranoia of the McCarthy era felt remote, and Mallon’s book ends in 1957.
  — Ron Nyswaner, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
• In this case, the paranoia over TikTok may be justified – at least to a point.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• As fiction about the pandemic keeps trickling in, even the lighter books have a sense of gloom and paranoia.
  — Lisa Levy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• His father, David Arkin, an artist and writer, lost his job as a teacher amid the paranoia of the Red Scare.
  — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 30 June 2023
• The issue roiled the country, though most did not share Esper’s paranoia.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• There’s a bit of paranoia and caricature in this account of the bros with their golf clubs.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
• And this form of paranoia is not limited to any one country.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 19 June 2023
• In that respect, Shyamalan has tapped right into the paranoia of our age.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
• Delta 8, on the other hand, is said to produce a milder high, with less anxiety and paranoia.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• There’s a lot more surveillance paranoia in this one, no?
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• On Tuesday, Roberts argued that paranoia toward the Dodgers is overblown.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• But the American historical psyche — the nasty, lurid stuff, the paranoia, the paradox, the farce, the terror, the truth.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• She’s doing the work in therapy, trying to let go of the fear, paranoia, regret, and anger that the man known as the Boogeyman caused her.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• In terms of side effects, the worst that can happen is some paranoia or anxiety.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 June 2022
• Still, even with the liberalized law, a touch of paranoia may remain for some.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 9 June 2022
• His mother said that in a state of paranoia, Longoria believed the man was going to hurt him.
  — Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2022
• At first, Madonna was ridiculed for having DNA paranoia.
  — Liza Vertinsky, The Conversation, 3 June 2022
• No more shadow depth charts, cakes or practice-video paranoia.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• And in a revamped final scene, Shields bears down on the harm done to women by male paranoia, the cure for which must be liberation.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• And collaborating with the Nazis by taking on the duties of a tattooist to stay alive caused Sokolow a life of guilt, fear and paranoia.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2024
• Each one also seems dogged down by paranoia and a desire to be taken seriously and not made a mockery of.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
• Resource scarcity still abounds, everyone continues to move with the furtive paranoia that’s part and parcel with living under a police state, and abortions are performed in the functional equivalent of back alleys.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024