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- noun Plural form of
hyperventilation .
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Examples
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In the end, there were no panic attacks or hyperventilations during the hour-long Oprah Winfrey show broadcast by ABC today.
Sarah Ferguson on Oprah: the duchess, the debts and the TV diva 2010
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We also know that many Democrats are going to engage in immigrant-bashing with alarmed hyperventilations about the threat posed by the brown victims of US international policy from the Global South.
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Although I was surprised when, an hour later and several chlausterphobic hyperventilations later, and a panicked IM with Karen, instructing her to delete my blog if I die, god I'm a nutter they de-planed all of us and deemed the plane irreparable.
blog: February 2008 2008
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Although I was surprised when, an hour later and several chlausterphobic hyperventilations later, and a panicked IM with Karen, instructing her to delete my blog if I die, god I'm a nutter they de-planed all of us and deemed the plane irreparable.
blog: Stage Fright 2008
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Your selection has the typical sneering leftist hyperventilations, but ironically, they list many of the anecdotes that add up to a leftist assault against Christians 'celebration of Christmas.
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Now we know the truth: Dion, like most Liberals, ignored Kinsella's hyperventilations about Martin, and let the MP use a private member's motion the way it was meant to be used, to put forward an idea that wasn't on the party's official agenda.
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Sure, sometimes you can get in trouble for talking about or depicting the male anatomy, but its not quite the same level of hyperventilations as if you pulled a Mark Halperin or a Jane Fonda.
Jessica Wakeman: You Can't Say That on Television: Jane Fonda and the C-Word 2008
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Now we know the truth: Dion, like most Liberals, ignored Kinsella's hyperventilations about Martin, and let the MP use a private member's motion the way it was meant to be used, to put forward an idea that wasn't on the party's official agenda.
Debbie Gyapong corrects Joan Bryden's mistake - Ezra Levant 2008
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Perhaps the post title should have been "hyperventilations from the infotainment 'tards."
Sticks and Stones 2007
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I temporarily keep my views tucked away, while pretending to be a fellow admirer of Merchant-Ivory movies, Noam Chomsky hyperventilations, Rabindrasangeet, Italian food, Slumdog Millionaire, The God of Small Things, newspaper columnists I hate ...
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