sudden panic

collocation in English

meaningsofsuddenandpanic

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sudden
adjective
uk
/ˈsʌd.ən/
us
/ˈsʌd.ən/
happening or done quickly and ...
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panic
noun[C usually singular, U]
uk
/ˈpæn.ɪk/
us
/ˈpæn.ɪk/
a sudden strong feeling of fear that prevents reasonable thought ...
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(Definition ofsuddenandpanicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsudden panic

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As we have seen, here were violent crimes committed by men who had been soldiers that might have provided the spark for asuddenpanic.
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I am fairly certain that my eloquence yesterday did not cause thesuddenpanic, but other activities within the market were responsible.
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However, it is not our policy to makesuddenpanicchanges in our policy to adjust to a temporary situation.
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The second possibility is asuddenpanicprogramme massively to increase our nuclear programme.
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Thissuddenpanicrise is bad for fertiliser manufacturers.
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Then, in asuddenpanic, most, if not all, of this has been thrown overboard.
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Asuddenpanicthrough a crash of prices would be the greatest disaster.
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All of us can remember the early 1970s and thesuddenpanicof the world oil crisis and the feeling that there was not enough oil to go around.
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Therefore, towards the end of the financial year there issuddenpanicand a great deal of money has to be saved quickly, so they stop maintaining the buildings.
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This caused asuddenpanic.
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They ought to have spent a large sum of money on those ships and removed these sudden panics and these sudden scares.
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