panic

In the finals she lost in Melbourne and Paris, frustration had given way to panic.

“In the past sometimes we have panicked with the pairings and switched everything up, and it hasn’t worked out,” Bradley said.

Jay Cooke, and other investment houses, collapsed in the panic.

Some come to it because of a doctor’s advice about perimenopausal symptoms, some from watching aging parents, and others from a low-grade existential panic about how they look.

When schools closed, parents I knew casually on the sidelines were the ones who fielded my middle-of-the-night panic texts.