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as in to rage
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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Recent Examples of seethe
Stars are constant, writhing masses of vast convective bubbles rising to their seething surfaces.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Nov. 2025
Mace seethed at the Ethics panel’s move.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2025
After the gold nuclei crashed, the protons and neutrons within them melted into a seething cloud of quark-gluon plasma.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2025
The Clash in 1983 were definitely in that category, as Strummer and Simonon kept seething at Jones’ prima-donna airs.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Nov. 2025
Mace seethed at the Ethics panel’s move.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2025
After the gold nuclei crashed, the protons and neutrons within them melted into a seething cloud of quark-gluon plasma.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2025
The Clash in 1983 were definitely in that category, as Strummer and Simonon kept seething at Jones’ prima-donna airs.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seethe
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In the days after the news of the split was made public, rumors swirled that Alix was linked to another NFL player — New York Giants rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart — after a photo circulated online that appeared to show Dart sliding into the influencer’s DMs.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 2026
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Rumors swirled, but 63-year-old veteran businessman Greg Abel was ultimately named his successor in 2025.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
5 Jan. 2026
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When the sun goes down, three beams of light will illuminate the sky over the town that was, piercing the darkness that this time last year was lit with the unholy glow of a fire raging, with no end in sight.—
Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
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That winter, the concrete spillway collapsed in one section during massive storms, prompting the evacuation of 188,000 people as water raged uncontrolled into the river below, and concerns grew that part of the dam might fail.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Their latest album, The Sludge of the Land, promises to unsettle your sensibilities by exploring the churning zone of kitsch that lurks behind more respectable musical forms.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
7 Jan. 2026
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Showing little propulsive momentum at the index level and under the sway of wide dispersion among stocks and sectors, this churning phase has left investor positioning and attitudes shy of dangerous extremes.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
5 Jan. 2026
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Place the bowl inside the microwave and heat on high for around three to four minutes, or until the solution is visibly steaming.—
Gemma Johnstone,
The Spruce,
10 Jan. 2026
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One ship was seized Friday in the Caribbean, and others were spotted steaming hundreds of miles into the Atlantic.—
Samuel Oakford,
Washington Post,
10 Jan. 2026
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Its carbon steel boils water quickly, while retaining heat.—
Isabel Garcia,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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Distilled water is water that has been boiled, causing the water molecules to return to a gaseous state and then condense back into liquid.—
Samantha Johnson,
Martha Stewart,
9 Jan. 2026
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Walk out of a play’s shadows back into the clear light of day without a there to take with you, and even a burning cauldron will become little more than a brief candle.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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Veg/cm/61 Fire has been burning on private land.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
10 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Gird your loins for potential shockwaves from logistical cyberattacks, crumbling critical infrastructure, even more extreme weather disasters and, most of all, intense geopolitical fragmentation that will further roil trade relationships, warned Everstream Analytics.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
8 Jan. 2026
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But that move is now widely understood to have contributed to the double-digit inflation that roiled the country during the ’70s and ended only after a new Fed chair raised interest rates high enough to trigger a recession.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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Seattle stormed back to tie it in the third, any notion that the Wild were going to be happy with a road point was quickly dispelled.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Stars have now lost six straight games (0-3-3) after getting battered Tuesday night by those same Hurricanes that Colorado stormed back against three days prior.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Seethe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seethe. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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