Local newspapers stoked a Hispanic panic that made long-time residents fear neighborhood change.

Many homeowners now install panic rooms as a precaution against intruders.

The defendant invoked the gay panic defense during the trial.

If the investors ask too many tough questions, he tends to press the panic button and abandon the project.

The lawyer invoked the homosexual panic defense during the murder trial.

Activists argued that gay panic defenses have no place in a fair legal system.

During the trial, the defense attorneys attempted to invoke homosexual panic defenses to justify the defendant's actions.

Scholars argue that moral panics often reflect deeper social anxieties rather than objective threats.

Many documentaries have reexamined the satanic panics of the 1980s, revealing how rumors and fear escalated into false accusations.

After the software update, kernel panics began occurring more often on the production servers.