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  • noun Plural form of panic.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of panic.

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Examples

  • To say Kate panics is something of an understatement.

    On Edith Wharton « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Given that recovery from financial panics is quite slow historically, that could be a huge problem.

    A reason why President Obama's policy message falls flat Stephen Stromberg 2010

  • But, as we saw in the Harvard 3L brouhaha, as well as the similar ones over James D. Watson and Larry Summers, the defining feature of these moral panics is the question: “Whose side are youon?”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Support for Restricting the Speech of Students Who Wear American Flags to School on Cinco de Mayo 2010

  • I think 2008 set a reasonable expectation that during short term panics commodity exposure will not do much for you.

    Random Roger 2010

  • And some of those busts - also called panics, recessions and depressions - can be so severe that they upset the body politic and cause society to run to one of the other isms - communism and fascism mostly - run by dictators and strong men.

    Larry Beinhart: Capitalism 104 2008

  • We also seem to have forgotten a basic point well known to Morgan, who would have recalled the panics of 1837, 1857, 1873 and 1897: Until prices are established, credit panics will not end and financial firms will remain frozen.

    Calling J.P. Morgan 2008

  • We also seem to have forgotten a basic point well known to Morgan, who would have recalled the panics of 1837, 1857, 1873 and 1897: Until prices are established, credit panics will not end and financial firms will remain frozen.

    Calling J.P. Morgan 2008

  • If the driver panics, that is another matter, but that is user error -- not bad engineering.

    BusinessWeek.com -- David Welch 2010

  • We continue to have serial "panics" with the Federal Reserve.

    Boo! (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • We continue to have serial 'panics' with the Federal Reserve.

    Boo! (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

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