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He was being accused of some heinous acts by some late comers when he got emotional and wrought up about those things being leveled against him.

From Fox News • Oct. 4, 2018

I hear you, I assured him, as you do with folks who are wrought up and close to going off the deep end, and you’re hoping to avoid a scene.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2015

But Mandelstam was too wrought up to be wary.

From Time Magazine Archive

The latter were too wrought up by their long isolation to say much.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had the sensation that the man was too emotionally wrought up over whatever it was that he had lost.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright




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