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as in raging
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
she seethed at the very thought of the staff's staggering incompetence
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as in boiling
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Recent Examples of seething
Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
The posts linked a global network of agitators who have seized on the influx of migrants seeking political asylum or economic opportunity to build seething followings online.
—Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2024
Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
The work begins with soft, airy slipping, the sense of something quietly seething and forming.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Verb
This helps explain why Gabbard elicits a seething hatred from people like Frum, Clinton, and Nichols.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
The posts linked a global network of agitators who have seized on the influx of migrants seeking political asylum or economic opportunity to build seething followings online.
—Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2024
Adjective
The usually calm German was clearly seething in a short interview with DAZN Espana following the full-time whistle on Saturday night.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
The work begins with soft, airy slipping, the sense of something quietly seething and forming.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seething
Verb
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Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water.—
Travis Loller,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.—
Interesting Engineering,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Scientific American,
3 Mar. 2020
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If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Dec. 2019
Verb
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Instead, its vivid, expressive prose also explores how aesthetic beauty can cover stomach-churning abuse, while Lin’s rich literary allusions reveal her sensitivity to language and her critical interest in developing a Taiwanese cultural heritage.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Dec. 2024
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Bateman is in the midst of churning a career-high output of 654 total yards and seven touchdowns in 14 games so far.—
Gord Magill,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this rifting, but a new study in Nature Geoscience suggests it is caused by rhythmic pulses of molten rock from deep below the surface.—
Nora Bradford,
Scientific American,
7 July 2025
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That involves a narrow escape from its fiery vat of molten steel.—
Peter Balonon-Rosen,
Vox,
4 July 2025
Adjective
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In Silicon Valley’s white-hot race for artificial intelligence supremacy, mind-boggling pay packages are part of the industry’s recruitment push.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
5 July 2025
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On Tuesday, news helicopters overhead captured the dramatic moment a fire inside a warehouse filled with fireworks sparked an explosion, sending white-hot sparks streaking through the air and starting a wildfire that continues to burn.—
Nathan Solis
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
Verb
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The company built a retail and residential complex around the county’s Coconut Grove Metrorail station, and Martin also is pitching an incinerator site in western Miami-Dade as an alternative to the Levine Cava plan to rebuild the trash-burning facility in Doral.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
4 Jan. 2025
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Most feature a king-size bed, wood-burning stove, plenty of knotty wood furniture, and fresh white linens.—
Maggie Fuller,
AFAR Media,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This set off blazing alarm bells for the entire U.S. cattle and beef industry.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
10 July 2025
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The explosion sent the building's blazing roof into the sky and prompted temporary evacuations nearby because of gas leak concerns.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
6 July 2025
Verb
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Symptoms like a fast heart rate, or shortness of breath, shaking and chills, confusion or lethargy.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024
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In the video, a terrified Archie can be seen frozen, staring and shaking.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Seething.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seething. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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