as in fainting
to lose consciousness
I swear I'll keel over if you make me dissect a frog
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Everything from fainting and panic attacks to seizures and heart attacks.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Travel + Leisure,
16 May 2026 -
Manning said smelling salts have only been approved for fainting because of the temporary increase of blood flow to the brain, and increased heart and respiratory rates can wake a person up.—
Jason Jones,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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Much like his teams at Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain, Pochettino encourages sharp, brave passing out from the back.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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However, the LaBrants know all too well that parenting isn't always as simple as passing out juice boxes to their five kids, sons Beckham, 2, and Zealand, 5, and daughters Sunday, 3, Posie, 7, and Everleigh, 13.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
5 June 2026
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Some hospitalized miners recalled seeing smoke and blacking out, according to state media reports.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 May 2026
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Gosling headlines Miller and Phil Lord’s film adaption of Andy Weir’s 2021 book of the same name, which centers on a school teacher turned astronaut tasked with stopping a mysterious entity from blacking out the sun.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
17 Apr. 2026
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The dread moving through professional offices right now is the sound of that assumption collapsing.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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Badham had barely escaped another collapsing production, an early version of The Wiz starring Diana Ross, when producer Robert Stigwood suddenly called him in to take over what was then still called Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night, based on Nik Cohn’s famous New York magazine article.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2026
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“Keeling (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keeling%20%28over%29. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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