freaked out
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While the audience freaked out with joy, she brought her fiancé, 26-year-old right-wing writer Vance Voetberg, on stage.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Basically, from about four months before the show wrapped until a year after that, I was pretty freaked out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Food and Drug Administration freaked out about potential risks to human health.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
British Columbians freaked out in August when the province’s supreme court ruled that the Cowichan First Nation has Aboriginal title to some 800 acres in Richmond, just south of Vancouver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
He thought maybe he should act a little wacko, so everyone would believe that he’d been freaked out by the notion of being closed in, cut off from the outside world.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
YouTube is awash with videos of freaked-out Midwesterners batting the meaty fish from their boats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
The week the U.S. shutdowns started, I remember sending a bunch of freaked-out texts, worried about whether anyone in my life had “it.”
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2020
Now, artisanal wellness brands and billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies alike have packaged and marketed lavender to a freaked-out populace.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2019
Even more intense is “Instagratification,” which tackles the emotional roller coaster of a life plugged in to social media, complete with a freaked-out, psychedelic breakdown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2017
We headed toward the door, passing stunned classmates and a freaked-out Mr. Gunthrie.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
