panic
Example Sentences
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She fueled a market panic in March 2020 by suggesting the central bank wouldn’t step in to help Italy as its borrowing costs soared.
Khaleela said she had flashbacks to the night of Aman's death and suffers from panic attacks as a result of what has happened.
From BBC
In the Colonial Pipeline attack, Russia-based hackers used a compromised password to gain access to the pipeline’s network, causing fuel shortages and panic buying at gasoline stations.
The gap between the three best-performing sectors over six weeks and the three worst has rarely been bigger, and usually during some sort of panic.
None of that implies the dollar will suddenly fall from grace, abandoned in a wave of panic selling.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.