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conniption

[kuh-nip-shuhn] / kəˈnɪp ʃən /


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Then the museum’s collection manager had a conniption.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022

He didn’t plan on it lasting five years and triggering a national conniption.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2018

The telecommunications industry has responded to the PUC's initiative with what can only be described as a mass conniption fit.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2016

At the 1967 Masters, the legendary Bobby Jones—a man who, according to the Atlanta History Center, “called singular attention to the game’s best traditions”—threw a conniption at the sight of Snead’s bizarro methodology.

From Slate • Jun. 13, 2013

I’d almost convinced myself that his summoning of the matchmaker had just been a conniption, that he’d done it purely to scare me straight.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu




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