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John Hollinger looks at the Western Conference teams who might already be in freak-out mode.—Zach Harper, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2025 After Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary this summer, some high-end real-estate brokers confessed to having something of a freak-out.—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2025 Ever since Bad Bunny was announced as the Super Bowl LX halftime headliner in September, there has been a far-right freak-out.—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025 But that possibility is literally dynamited in a vision Daria has of the home abruptly blown to smithereens, the destruction replayed in slo-mo to the crashing squeals of early Pink Floyd, itself a collapse of psychedelic rock’s utopian ideals into acid-casualty freak-out.—Jake Cole, IndieWire, 18 Aug. 2025 The dog remained unfazed during Fowler's minor freak-out.—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025 Oasis’s last tour, in 2008, was riven by fights, freak-outs, and sibling rivalry.—Air Mail, 7 June 2025 What follows is a melee of pratfalls and freak-outs, a guffaw-worthy display by such a fine group of actors.—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 21 May 2025 Expect multiple scenes of the characters engaging in psychedelic frolics and freak-outs, some of which illustrate their backstories through sweaty, surreal vignettes.—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 May 2025
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