panic buying

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noun

the buying up of large quantities of a commodity which, it is feared, is likely to be in short supply

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Words nearby panic buying

panic, panic attack, panic bar, panic bolt, panic button, panic buying, panic disorder, panic grass, panicle, panicmonger, panic room

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How to use panic buying in a sentence

Yet we keep doing the cleanses, buying the meal replacement bars, and joining Weight Watchers.
Why Your New Year’s Diet Will Fail|Carrie Arnold|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
How do you push yourself to be better when you get an Oscar for buying breakfast in the morning?
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange|Marlow Stern|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The one caveat: Asprey advises only buying butter made from grass-fed or pastured cows.
Bulletproof Coffee and the Case for Butter as a Health Food|DailyBurn|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Just two young kids experiencing the panic, pain, and then the miracle, of new birth.
Jesus Wasn’t Born Rich. Think About It.|Gene Robinson|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Hence, I suspect, the panic, the lockdown, the capitulation.
Pyongyang Shuffle: Hollywood In Dead Panic Over Sony Hack|James Poulos|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We stood staring after the fugitives in perfect bewilderment, totally unable to explain their apparently causeless panic.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Two artillery subalterns who had fought their way through a mob stricken with panic for the moment, soon arrived.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
But she is greatly interested in certain shops that she is buying out, and especially in her visits to her tailor.
Confidence|Henry James
But what if I catch the fish by using a hired boat and a hired net, or by buying worms as bait from some one who has dug them?
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
He was naturally frightfully upset about it, and a regular panic sprang up in the neighbourhood.
Uncanny Tales|Various