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  • adjective Extremely tense.

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Examples

  • But there wasn't the kind of hypertense atmosphere that has prevailed during October's contemporary-art week since the trendy Frieze Art Fair started five years ago.

    Buying Turns Kinder, Gentler 2007

  • In this hypertense atmosphere, friends with nightsticks have no business anywhere near a polling place no matter what race they are or where it is.

    Obama Volunteer On Scene Disputes Fox News' Suggestions That Black Panthers Are Intimidating Voters 2009

  • The congested, hypertense crossing point of the River Jordan, between Jordan "proper" and the Israeli-held West Bank, is to this day known as the Allenby Bridge, after T.E. Lawrence's commander.

    The Perils of Partition 2003

  • The congested, hypertense crossing point of the River Jordan, between Jordan "proper" and the Israeli-held West Bank, is to this day known as the Allenby Bridge, after T.E. Lawrence's commander.

    The Perils of Partition 2003

  • After Mr. Levitt died her doctor had given her a physical and pronounced her hypertense, overweight.

    Black and Blue Quindlen, Anna 1998

  • He concluded that she was in remarkably good physical health, but she had indeed changed from a confused, disoriented state to a hypertense and volatile one.

    Fallen Hearts V.C. ANDREWS 1988

  • He concluded that she was in remarkably good physical health, but she had indeed changed from a confused, disoriented state to a hypertense and volatile one.

    Fallen Hearts V.C. ANDREWS 1988

  • Generally, there will be a tense producer at one elbow, a hypertense director at the other, and six or seven grim PR people scattered around, all of them expecting one to come forth with both incisive analysis and wild praise, some eight or ten seconds after “The End” has appeared on the screen.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • Generally, there will be a tense producer at one elbow, a hypertense director at the other, and six or seven grim PR people scattered around, all of them expecting one to come forth with both incisive analysis and wild praise, some eight or ten seconds after “The End” has appeared on the screen.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • Generally, there will be a tense producer at one elbow, a hypertense director at the other, and six or seven grim PR people scattered around, all of them expecting one to come forth with both incisive analysis and wild praise, some eight or ten seconds after “The End” has appeared on the screen.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

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