apoplexy
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About a month after that, the financier, tormented by fears of further investigation, died of apoplexy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
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
When the policy was announced, it was met in some quarters with apoplexy.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019
A few days after hearing about Mr. Pecker’s apoplexy, we were approached, verbally at first, with an offer.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2019
But not yet, the men on the other side were waiting, red faces swollen as though from apoplexy as they bent forward in their chairs.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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