basket case

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Recent Examples of basket case Credit Suisse has become a European banking basket case. Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022 The village was literally a basket case, bereft of water, food and all hope. Steve West, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2022 Venezuela, another socialist basket case, slips to the second-most-miserable country in the world after six years in the pole position. Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022 Today, a mere million dollars barely buys a Miura basket case. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2022 See all Example Sentences for basket case 
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Noun
  • The Gutierrez brothers grew up in a low-income house with an alcoholic father who frequently beat both his sons and his wife, who at one point was hospitalized after a nervous breakdown, according to Diane Mosnik, a clinical neuropsychologist who evaluated Gutierrez in 2019.
    Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 16 July 2024
  • Set in 1960s Italy, Sally Bishop (Monroe) and her husband travel to a remote villa in the wake of Sally’s nervous breakdown.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Psychiatric problems — marked anxiety or panic attacks progressing to temporary psychosis and even schizophrenia-like psychotic illness — are presenting more frequently in emergency rooms.
    Dr. Jerrold B. Leikin, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Climate Denial as a Defense Mechanism Much like a terror management lab experiment – or the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic– natural disasters like hurricanes Helene and Milton trigger death anxiety.
    Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Privacy advocates have been in a state of high alarm about the colliding political and technological trend lines.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Nintendo’s boon had been their handhelds, which outperformed their home consoles, but Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Portable (PSP), a gaming and media hub said to be as powerful as a PS2, had alarm bells ringing.
    Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Here's the breakdown When is the McRib making its Michigan return?
    Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Here's a county-by-county breakdown of how the 2024 foliage is predicted to change across the U.S.: Best month for fall foliage in 2024 Why do leaves change color?
    Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 20 Nov. 2024

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“Basket case.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/basket%20case. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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