hysterics

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Yet even Honor is cowed by the household’s steely Yugoslav maid, Greta, who dismisses all heartbreaks and hysterics with the motto, “play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Pupil A described pupil F as being in "slight hysterics" at this remark.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

Frank Drebin, Neeson kept us in hysterics with a stupid-brilliant barrage of surreal wordplay and daffy slapstick.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Once recovered and breathing properly, one snicker from either of us in remembrance of what had been so funny, and off we would go, falling back into hysterics.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024

But she waved it off; the tackle was clean, and to the delight of the Thirteens, now bent over in hysterics, Muamer decidedly wasn’t.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John