Example Sentences

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Why hadn’t I thought of any of this before, particularly because I’d been so neurotically careful for the previous two years.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2022

Voice recorder and iPhone Voice Memos are checked and neurotically rechecked.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2019

We have a lot of experience with the fact that those rules are basically complied with, kind of neurotically.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2018

Through the six square, neurotically overstuffed panels on each page, Bell shows us the landscape of her mother’s life, populated by feral animals and possibly dirty dishes.

From New York Times • May 31, 2017

It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish.

From "1984" by George Orwell