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apoplexy

[ap-uh-plek-see] / ˈæp əˌplɛk si /
NOUN
loss of consciousness fromblockage in vein or artery
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Tudyk deftly dispenses both deadpan stares and comic apoplexy, and through the first half of its initial season, the show was consistently clever and astringently funny.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2021

The ease with which Levin moves from apoplexy to calm tells me that the rage is a rhetorical flourish that substitutes for the logic his arguments lack.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2020

A few days after hearing about Mr. Pecker’s apoplexy, we were approached, verbally at first, with an offer.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2019

“If you’re going to dismiss everything as a hoax, you’d better have something clear to replace it,” he said, his voice rising toward apoplexy.

From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2018

After dinner, Lady Seymour had a frightful seizure of the apoplexy.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson


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