adrenaline
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It also prompts the adrenal glands to release adrenaline.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
“I like the adrenaline you get as a goalie and the feeling that you’re helping your team out. Even when I got scored on, I didn’t let it get to me.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
The actress plays an outdoors-loving adrenaline junkie harassed by a group of hunters in director Baltasar Kormákur’s spectacular, unsettling film.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
McIlroy, with the adrenaline pumping, hammered his tee shot on the 170-yard par three 16th beyond the pin and off the back of the green.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
Brooklyn was still groggy as they walked from their hotel to Olympus, but by the time they’d gone through security, her adrenaline had kicked in and she was alert and ready to go.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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