panicking

Example Sentences

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Markets that had been panicking recovered once they knew the Fed would stand behind them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

"If I came out and she was panicking I would have been under the pump."

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Even if the market hasn’t crashed, this multi-week decline shows persistent selling pressure, not just a one-time shock, as investors gradually de-risk rather than panicking all at once.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

Jack Allen-Reynolds, deputy chief eurozone economist at Capital Economics, told AFP that the ECB would want to stress that they were "not panicking".

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

“She did. If I hadn’t been panicking so much, I’d have remembered that blue whales aren’t physically able to swallow anything close to my size.”

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook