Word: phobic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nathans, who describes herself as formerly "computer-phobic," said this switch will help students to become more comfortable with computers...
...seen such reactions before. "Manypeople are reluctant to talk about [anxiety]because it invokes terror," he explains. "They mayhave a phobic reaction to that. Phobias andanxiety dreams go together...
Clinical manuals characterize anorexia nervosa as "a phobic avoidance of food" in the presence of a loss of about 15 percent of one's body weight. Bulimia, on the other hand, is associated with the cycle of uncontrolled eating ("binging") and subsequent ridding of the body of unwanted food ("purging...
Ugly Kid Joe's whirlwind, MTV-induced rise to the giddy heights of fame and commercial success was based primarily on the band members' sunny Californian good looks and brand of pop metal that is accessible to even the most guitar-phobic Top-40 listener...
Bottom Line. The Coppertone girl and her pup in downtown Miami are sending the wrong signal in these solar-phobic times, says the manufacturer...