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as in to lose it
to yield to mental or emotional stress
a movie about a submarine captain who flips out when there's an emergency, leaving the crew to deal with it on their own
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as in to anger
to become very angry
when my wife saw that I had broken her great-grandmother's vase, she absolutely flipped out
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The financial system melted down in 2008 and the global COVID-19 pandemic erupted in 2020.
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The industry was already struggling with cost overruns when, in 1979, a reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania partially melted down and slammed the brakes on further expansion.
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But Schnur said the governor likely also has concerns about angering one of his biggest backers.
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Meanwhile, Daemon, angered that his wife/niece is mad at him for orchestrating the brutal murder of a child, goes to the cursed castle of Harrenhal to claim it for their side — or perhaps to claim it for himself.
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The former cracked the top 10 on Spain's radio airplay chart.
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And not one property owner has participated in a pilot program requiring landlords to give current tenants first crack at purchasing multifamily buildings.
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Playing the Atlanta Dream, the Eastern Conference’s top team, Golden State hit 15 3-pointers to cruise to a 77-66 win at home and snap its two-game losing streak.
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Name something worse than going to snap a photo of the beach, only to figure out that your phone’s battery is dead.
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Police say after entering the store, Tabor allegedly randomly picked out a woman and started choking her.
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Connecticut’s largest cities also struggle with the state’s highest property tax rates, which chokes business growth and, in turn, shifts more burden onto residential owners.
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In fact, none of them are shy about their glee, leaving Kayda crying, Trinity snarling, and Melanie calculating.
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Traffic was snarled on Interstate 70 and other key arteries because of some combination of vague signage on parking passes or apps, accidents earlier in the afternoon, the lack of dedicated lanes for the bus system — why oh why couldn’t that be achieved in the master plan?
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Bland broke down when the judge announced his verdict, wiping tears from her face.
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The former Michigan star broke down in tears on Tuesday, June 23 after the Golden State Warriors selected him 11th overall in the 2026 NBA Draft, with the 6-foot-9 forward embracing his mother, Yissel Raposo, in an emotional scene inside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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Ripley was honored for a heroic effort to halt the advance of North Vietnamese forces by blowing up a crucial bridge in 1972.
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Boy Talk appeared one at a time in the same spot on the balcony, each guy in turn blown up on the screen above his own head.
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“Flip (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flip%20%28out%29. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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