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noun

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Recent Examples of freak-out
Verb
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 Every so often, the E.R. is visited by rats, little symbols of disrepair and instigators of slapstick freak-outs. James Poniewozik, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025 Enter another Jamie freak-out, which seems to come out of nowhere. Marah Eakin, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025 No one is really disputing it, but the market freak-out hinges on the truthfulness of a single and relatively unknown company. Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freak-out
Verb
  • Finney's younger sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) is bothered by nightmarish visions of an alpine camp, and the siblings investigate only to discover that the Grabber has found a way to torture from the other side.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Common Pests and Problems Hardy cyclamen planted in ground are rarely bothered by pests.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But that hasn’t staunched a meltdown of late and 27 blown saves.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The pressure builds until Eddie has a meltdown in public, shaking and threatening the kids who defaced his car.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Some furniture executives worry about rising prices and the lack of domestic manufacturing capacity.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • And while some worry that changing the exclusion could flood the market, Moody’s analysis finds that even a 25% spike in listings would only restore sales to normal, pre-crisis levels.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Fall is the perfect time to plant milkweed, Timm said, because the plants need to overwinter, allowing the cold to crack their seeds open.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The vomit situation was cracking me up that that was on TV.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But for Apryl Shackelford, those anxieties have been replaced with opportunity.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Even your own anxiety may play a part.
    George Petras, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The threats coming from Vance and a top Trump official alarmed many of the country’s major philanthropies.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The potential illegality of the strikes should alarm Americans.
    Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • An ancient gold bracelet belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh that had disappeared from a museum in Cairo was stolen and later melted down, the country's Interior Ministry said Thursday.
    Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Cairo, Egypt Reuters — A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet that disappeared from an Egyptian museum earlier this month was stolen and melted down, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But because of a costly walk and a bad matchup, the Guardians padded their lead and sent the Tigers further into a tailspin.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The president's proclamation has sent hundreds of thousands of workers into a tailspin.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Freak-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freak-out. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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