as in blazing
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1
as in hissing
to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\
from my bed I could hear the bacon sizzling in the frying pan
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as in steaming
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
she was really sizzling about being passed over for the promotion, and nearly quit
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sizzling
Adjective
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The Houston transfer has shades of Brandon Aiyuk in his game, and ran a blazing 4.29 40-yard dash at the combine.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025 -
Before a single note is sung, the outing is already off to a blazing start.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But the white-hot rage of the MAGA base can’t be comfortable to bear.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
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Silicon Valley’s white-hot tech economy pushed up housing costs.—
Christian Babcock,
The Mercury News,
12 Mar. 2025
Verb
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There was understandable tension in the quarter-final against Bayern Munich, but something was bubbling from minute one against Porto.—
Art de Roché,
The Athletic,
29 Dec. 2024
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One perk is that the bubbling stream provides the ideal ecosystem where hemlock and rhododendron thrive along the banks.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
29 Dec. 2024
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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Among the productions strengths is Jake Gyllenhaal’s seething Iago, one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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This helps explain why Gabbard elicits a seething hatred from people like Frum, Clinton, and Nichols.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
21 Nov. 2024
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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President Biden awarded the coveted Medal of Valor on Friday to a pair of heroic FDNY firefighters who ignored intense flames and selflessly raced into danger to save desperate New Yorkers who were trapped in burning buildings.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Much like oil and gas, geothermal energy, which harnesses the planet’s molten core to make steam, had long been confined to the places where access came easy—the American West, where Yellowstone’s famous geysers hint at the heat below, or volcanic Iceland.—
Alexander C. Kaufman,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2025
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That’s the subtle magnetic force — generated by the planet’s molten metal core — that surrounds Earth, not unlike the force around a bar magnet.—
Benji Jones,
Vox,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The Dodgers have managed a torrid start to the season while rarely feeling whole.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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Towson redshirt sophomore point guard Dylan Williamson extended his torrid run in the tournament.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Sizzling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sizzling. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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