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as in to storm
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger the newspaper's blatantly biased coverage made a lot of readers steam

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noun

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Recent Examples of steam
Verb
For easy maintenance, there’s a steam-clean and self-clean option. Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025 In addition, the men’s and women’s locker rooms feature a sauna, steam room, warm spa and cold plunge. Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
Its most famous dish is its roasted pork bun ($3), which is enjoyed best while steaming hot. Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025 Plus, the material is wrinkle-free, which will save you from steaming it in the mornings. Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for steam
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steam
Verb
  • Hours later, the players stormed onto the NFL turf under the bright stadium lights, ready to battle it out in a three-team round robin against the Murrieta Hawkeyes and Shadow Hawks.
    Stephanie Ogilvie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The 34-year-old Colombian artist stormed the runway to perform between the parade of angel wings, and received her own coveted feathers in the process.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of the retailing giant, experienced a massive outage in the wee hours of Monday that knocked out what felt like everything.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • By deploying solvers on scalable cloud platforms, firms avoid the need for expensive local hardware, lowering barriers for CAE adoption among businesses.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The women in your kitchen mixed the figs with walnuts, almonds, and sugar then boiled it all and stored it in clay pots for breakfast.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Water does not have to be boiled for handwashing, bathing and laundry purposes, but residents should be careful not to ingest it.
    Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And that's what smoke alarms do.
    Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Other possible causes include contact with hazardous substances such as smoke from oil well fires, pesticides, depleted uranium, and solvents or corrosive liquids used during equipment repair and maintenance.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • My father’s kind voice ruptured the sound of violence raging around us.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Or to be safe and dry as a storm rages outside?
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some over-the-top emergencies have included earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis, train collisions releasing toxic fumes into the air, volcano eruptions, even a bizarre porta potty rescue.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That means no coating to wear out, no chemical fumes at high heat, and no worries about metal utensils or scrubbing pads.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • First, a late substitution forced Napier to burn a timeout near the red zone just before the play clock ran out.
    Matt Baker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • In the absence of cooking gas, nearly two-thirds of households have resorted to burning waste to cook meals, according to the UN.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On the banks Following the discovery of a handful of bad loans from banks, Wall Street has been on the hunt for any other signs of risk in the sector.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The framework for permissible banking hinges on a 2014 guidance document from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which outlines eight federal enforcement priorities that banks must help uphold.
    Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Steam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steam. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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