as in to pass out
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The captain had briefly left the cockpit to use the lavatory when the copilot fainted during a flight from Frankfurt to Seville, Spain, on February 17, 2024, said the report from the agency, called CIAIAC.—
Alex Stambaugh,
CNN Money,
19 May 2025 -
According to the Associated Press, the copilot fainted after the pilot got up to use the bathroom, citing German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
19 May 2025
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Millay’s sonnets reckon with the end of love not in a spirit of swooning regret but with brisk, sometimes cynical acceptance.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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This arrangement of justice is true to form for You, which traffics in swooning gestures and cute, tidy outcomes for its protago-villain.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Zonk (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zonk%20%28out%29. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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