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  • adjective Not hysterical (prone to hysterics).

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non- +‎ hysterical

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Examples

  • At the time, Yang bemoaned, "A dignified, nonhysterical account of our peculiar sufferings untethered to the American upper middle class's Ivy League fixation and richly justified fear of national decline remains elusive."

    Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang Silpa Kovvali 2011

  • At the time, Yang bemoaned, "A dignified, nonhysterical account of our peculiar sufferings untethered to the American upper middle class's Ivy League fixation and richly justified fear of national decline remains elusive."

    Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang Silpa Kovvali 2011

  • At the time, Yang bemoaned, "A dignified, nonhysterical account of our peculiar sufferings untethered to the American upper middle class's Ivy League fixation and richly justified fear of national decline remains elusive."

    Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang Silpa Kovvali 2011

  • At the time, Yang bemoaned, "A dignified, nonhysterical account of our peculiar sufferings untethered to the American upper middle class's Ivy League fixation and richly justified fear of national decline remains elusive."

    Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang Silpa Kovvali 2011

  • At the time, Yang bemoaned, "A dignified, nonhysterical account of our peculiar sufferings untethered to the American upper middle class's Ivy League fixation and richly justified fear of national decline remains elusive."

    Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang Silpa Kovvali 2011

  • Could a nonhysterical, non-leftwing editor even exist, or is that concept outside the bounds of your fevered imagination?

    Savage but untrue David 2006

  • Are you willing to concede even the remote possibility that a nonhysterical, non-leftwing editor might someday, under some circumstances, try to write a headline for a next-day story that would interest readers who already know the bare facts of a breaking news story?

    Savage but untrue David 2006

  • Then the hypothetical "Inmates can strike at prison wall" would be accurate and thoroughly nonhysterical -- just as the headlines were about the oil facility strike.

    Savage but untrue David 2006

  • “Are you willing to concede even the remote possibility that a nonhysterical [sic], non-leftwing editor might someday, under some circumstances ….”

    Savage but untrue David 2006

  • Then the hypothetical "Inmates can strike at prison wall" would be accurate and thoroughly nonhysterical [sic] -- just as the headlines were about the oil facility strike.

    Savage but untrue David 2006

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