How to Use freak-out in a Sentence
freak-out
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Somebody, the woman had just a little bit of a freak-out for lack of a better term.
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Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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For now, though, Chang is in her bubble up north and witnessing most of the freak-outs remotely and not in person.
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Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
14 Jan. 2026
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The episode was almost entirely about Margo and her continued freak-out.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2026
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This time, Carr’s freak-out was an attempt to stretch the FCC’s equal-time rules to apply to talk shows — both late night and daytime.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2026
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Much of the freak-out was fed by polls supposedly showing Republicans Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco atop the field.
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Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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After Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary this summer, some high-end real-estate brokers confessed to having something of a freak-out.
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Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
30 Oct. 2025
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Ever since Bad Bunny was announced as the Super Bowl LX halftime headliner in September, there has been a far-right freak-out.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2025
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Her freak-out about a single missing shower cap is the spark that kicks off a surprisingly beautiful story about welcoming change, whether that means accepting fluctuations in the hotel’s amenities or letting a family of alien tanuki crash in the place.
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Kambole Campbell,
Vulture,
9 Dec. 2025
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But that possibility is literally dynamited in a vision Daria has of the home abruptly blown to smithereens, the destruction replayed in slo-mo to the crashing squeals of early Pink Floyd, itself a collapse of psychedelic rock’s utopian ideals into acid-casualty freak-out.
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Jake Cole,
IndieWire,
18 Aug. 2025
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