panic-stricken
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It was from her panic-stricken daughter-in-law, Ksenia, who lives in Russia with Valerie's 30-year-old son and the couple's newborn baby.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
I was panic-stricken because that was done in front of an audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Investors waking up to volatile and panic-stricken markets on Monday may be surprised to discover that gold is now in negative territory for the year after a painful bout of profit-taking and deleveraging.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026
Prosecutors argued that this left his poorly trained, panic-stricken crew effectively useless amid the fire, which possibly originated in a trash can sometime after 2:35 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
It pained Mariam—it pained her considerably—to picture Rasheed panic-stricken and helpless, pacing the banks of the lake and pleading with it to spit his son back onto dry land.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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