panic attack
Example Sentences
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On the main stage, May Habib, chief executive of an AI platform called Writer, told the audience that Fortune 500 bosses are having a "collective panic attack" on the subject.
From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026
Shear, with a resting face that seems halfway to panic attack, plays Sam, whose free-floating anxiety is enough to make him faint in public after getting laid off.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
When her son Kit was a baby, she experienced a panic attack when he was poorly with bronchiolitis and he had to go to hospital.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
Irish filmmaker John Kelly, who specializes in animation, had a panic attack on an airplane while going through endless flagged emails.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026
The idea of being dunked in everyone’s pee—and God knows what else—is enough to give me a panic attack, and the chlorine makes my skin itch and eyes sting.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
