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  • noun medicine The medical condition verbal paraphasia, an aspect of aphasia, where the patient speaks a word different from the one they intended to say.

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  • Compared to the well-oiled Dunham & Miller machine, The HL show is mess of insipid inside jokes followed by the annoying cackles of them circle jerking each other off. after listening to the H / L yesterday, the ` 10th, i finally got my answer to greggo's whereabouts. corby and mike are probably so hurt by gregg's statements, rgarding their loyalties, depth and nature of friendship, etc. you'd think a self-proclaimed addict could really undertand the definition of "paranomia", & usefully use it to describe why

    Dallas Observer | Complete Issue 2009

  • Compared to the well-oiled Dunham & Miller machine, The HL show is mess of insipid inside jokes followed by the annoying cackles of them circle jerking each other off. after listening to the H / L yesterday, the ` 10th, i finally got my answer to greggo's whereabouts. corby and mike are probably so hurt by gregg's statements, rgarding their loyalties, depth and nature of friendship, etc. you'd think a self-proclaimed addict could really undertand the definition of "paranomia", & usefully use it to describe why

    Dallas Observer | Complete Issue 2009

  • Compared to the well-oiled Dunham & Miller machine, The HL show is mess of insipid inside jokes followed by the annoying cackles of them circle jerking each other off. after listening to the H / L yesterday, the ` 10th, i finally got my answer to greggo's whereabouts. corby and mike are probably so hurt by gregg's statements, rgarding their loyalties, depth and nature of friendship, etc. you'd think a self-proclaimed addict could really undertand the definition of "paranomia", & usefully use it to describe why

    Dallas Observer | Complete Issue 2009

  • Basil calls trigamy, polygamy, and quoting Gregory of Nazianzus (Orat. 31) as calling a third marriage paranomia.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

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