hysterical
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Varley was "hysterical" and blaming himself for what had happened, but this was all a "cover-up" act, Wright said.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
The presentation is just a tiny bit hysterical.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
“All the boys have them,” one female White House aide told the Journal, while another joked that “it’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them.”
From Slate • Mar. 14, 2026
López kept her word, casting Ontiveros as Carmen, the hardworking, hysterical mother in “Real Women Have Curves.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
The space inside the cage became a blur of bulging bird eyes, a cloud of thatching hay, and a pair of blue-and-orange wings battering the walls in every direction with a hysterical thwap, thwap, thwap!
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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