as in angry
feeling or showing anger
the coach was so apoplectic when the player missed the free throw that he threw his clipboard onto the court
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Recent Examples of apoplectic
The Connecticut men’s basketball coach, who led the Huskies to the past two NCAA tournament titles, was almost apoplectic about his team’s first half effort in Friday night’s 71-62 loss to Creighton in the Big East tournament semifinals at Madison Square Garden.
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Tim Casey, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
The Golden State Warriors have extended a final chapter for their dynastic journey, while the Dallas Mavericks are hushing away fake mourners and apoplectic fans.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
The fans are apoplectic, the Trojans have changed athletic directors (from Mike Bohn to Jen Cohen), and president Carol Folt, who hired Riley, is stepping down this summer — all of which suggests significant seat heat.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
In the premiere of the most recent season of Sesame Street, innocent conversations among residents of 123 Sesame Street keep being interrupted by a typically confused and apoplectic Grover.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024
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Tim Casey, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
The Golden State Warriors have extended a final chapter for their dynastic journey, while the Dallas Mavericks are hushing away fake mourners and apoplectic fans.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
The fans are apoplectic, the Trojans have changed athletic directors (from Mike Bohn to Jen Cohen), and president Carol Folt, who hired Riley, is stepping down this summer — all of which suggests significant seat heat.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
In the premiere of the most recent season of Sesame Street, innocent conversations among residents of 123 Sesame Street keep being interrupted by a typically confused and apoplectic Grover.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apoplectic
Adjective
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Major tennis governing bodies moved to combat online abuse and published last year a report that attributed nearly half of abusive social media posts to angry gamblers.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
3 June 2025
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Testimony in a Placer County murder trial continued Tuesday with an investigator reciting angry emails over a $1.3 million loan for a fledgling business between a Lake Tahoe-area couple and their former Major League Baseball player son-in-law who is accused of shooting them.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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The reaction from agency and network veterans was swift and indignant.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
7 May 2025
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After a year of intense efforts, we are baffled and indignant.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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New York trailed by 13 with 5:38 left in the game and tried to continue the series’ streak of someone — Knicks or Pacers — making a furious fourth quarter comeback.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
27 May 2025
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Connecticut has funneled $12.5 billion in surpluses since 2017 to build reserves and scale back pension debt, a furious pace that far outstrips any similar effort in modern history.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
25 May 2025
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And Just Like That is almost upon us—and with it, another series full of increasingly maximal, mad fashion choices.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
22 May 2025
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Meanwhile, a couple of other aliens are dispatched to bring him back: his mad scientist inventor Jumba (Zach Galifianakis) and Earth-loving oddball Pleakley (Billy Magnussen).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
21 May 2025
Adjective
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Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Monday Russia had launched more than 900 drones at Ukraine in three days, mixed in with ballistic and cruise missile strikes.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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Upon investigating the townhouse, police allegedly found blood splatters and recovered an array of items, including a saw, chicken wire, ballistic helmets, body armor, and night vision goggles.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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Like across-the-board tariffs, which would eat into profit margins and infuriate investors.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
5 Mar. 2025
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The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Apoplectic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apoplectic. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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