adrenaline
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Martyn Pope and Dean Hollands said adrenaline "kicked in" as they arrived to help, using tools from their van to take out a window and smash through the doors.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026
A wide river of cropped hair, crisp T-shirts, and adrenaline stretching almost 500 feet to Herndon, where they’re held back by an invisible dam about to burst.
From Slate • Jun. 24, 2026
When I reached John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s story, a switch went off within me — that jolt of adrenaline and inspiration you pray to stumble upon as a writer.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026
Mr. Hernández has a febrile energy that finds him bounding around the stage with a convincingly youthful, manic intensity, as if new love has pushed his adrenaline into overdrive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
She was small and agile and one of those people who, if her adrenaline got going, could probably bench-press a car off a baby.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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