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panic

[pan-ik] / ˈpæn ɪk /


NOUN
sudden drop in value in financial markets
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Shoppers have relied on messaging apps to track grocery supplies across the city as crises in recent years have sparked bouts of panic buying.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The Doctors’ Riot of 1788” centers on the New York incident but also tells the broader story of medicine in the early American republic, including quack cures and smallpox panics.

From The Wall Street Journal

"There are several public health issues where you feel like there are things you've got to worry about, panic about and deal with yourself, but it doesn't have to be that way," says Dr Xand.

From BBC

Someone with $25 million, or $1 billion, has no particular reason to worry unduly about daily fluctuations in the stock market, or to panic.

From MarketWatch

He said even if there were other fire exits, panicked people in unfamiliar spaces were more likely to go out the way they came in.

From BBC