as in frenzy
a state of wildly excited activity or emotion
the hysteria of the mother when she realized that she had lost her four-year-old son in the crowd
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Recent Examples of hysteria
Trump initially sparked hysteria in the financial markets by announcing tariff rates on dozens of countries, including 24% on Japan and 25% on South Korea.
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Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
The recent decision of the Supreme Court denying the nation’s thousand-odd federal district judges the power, absent class action treatment, to grant nationwide injunctions has generated hysteria from partisans.
—George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2025
For the past few days, though, the internet has been gripped with Monterrey wall fever, the kind of mass hysteria that can really only take hold during the long, delirious advance of a summer tournament.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Trump’s ‘smoke and mirrors’ But the government has not signaled any sense of hysteria about Trump’s decision to hold off on a strike on Iran for two weeks.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
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Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
The recent decision of the Supreme Court denying the nation’s thousand-odd federal district judges the power, absent class action treatment, to grant nationwide injunctions has generated hysteria from partisans.
—George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2025
For the past few days, though, the internet has been gripped with Monterrey wall fever, the kind of mass hysteria that can really only take hold during the long, delirious advance of a summer tournament.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Trump’s ‘smoke and mirrors’ But the government has not signaled any sense of hysteria about Trump’s decision to hold off on a strike on Iran for two weeks.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hysteria
Noun
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And things got off to an electric start when — less than three minutes into the game — Stewart scored from 4 yards out, launching the home crowd into a frenzy and one little girl into viral-video stardom.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
16 July 2025
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Worsening inflation poses a political challenge for Trump, who as a candidate promised to immediately lower costs, but instead has engaged in a whipsawed frenzy of tariffs that have jolted businesses and consumers.—
Christopher Rugaber,
Chicago Tribune,
15 July 2025
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In January 2015, John Lee, 29, killed three people, including his adoptive mother, and injured a fourth during a shooting rampage in Moscow.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
10 July 2025
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The police would arrest and release two suspects before finally arresting Danny Rolling, a Shreveport, La., native who would later confess to a triple homicide in his hometown and shooting his own father in the weeks before his Gainesville rampage.—
Jeremy Helligar,
People.com,
5 July 2025
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“Hysteria.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hysteria. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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