as in rampage
a state of wildly excited activity or emotion
in its frenzy to flee the danger, the crowd became uncontrollable, and a number of people were trampled to death
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as in to craze
to cause to go insane or as if insane
local football fans who were frenzied by the fact that their team was going to the Super Bowl
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Recent Examples of frenzy
Morgan Korn, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2025
The frenzy of comments included observations that inexpensive first dates can be read as unserious or lacking in effort.
—Myisha Battle, Time, 18 Apr. 2025
Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024
Though the show stretches across eight 45-minute episodes, diving into countless details and fantastical beings, its pacing often stalls, leading to a humdrum tone instead of a display frenzied with action.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
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Noun
Whoever can capitalize on the frenzy of the consumer will win the day, at least in the second quarter.
—Morgan Korn, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2025
The frenzy of comments included observations that inexpensive first dates can be read as unserious or lacking in effort.
—Myisha Battle, Time, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
By now, enough time has passed that the flight has faded from daily conversation — around the Blue Jays, the Dodgers and a baseball industry that at the time had frenzied over the situation.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024
Though the show stretches across eight 45-minute episodes, diving into countless details and fantastical beings, its pacing often stalls, leading to a humdrum tone instead of a display frenzied with action.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for frenzy
Noun
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Arsenal Forget the Premier League, Arsenal are on a rampage in Europe.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Future Abby meets her younger self in the hallway of the Fireflies hospital in Salt Lake City, just after Joel's rampage.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Another crazed superfan maybe?—
Erica Gonzales,
ELLE,
23 Mar. 2023
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Ellie, crazed and exhausted, emerges into the cold air in a cloud of smoke.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
6 Mar. 2023
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Prosecutors allege that Read, 45, deliberately hit O’Keefe with her SUV in a drunken rage and left him to die in the snow in January 2022.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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If Episode 2 was the depiction of fire and uncontrollable rage — with Tommy flaming down an unrelenting monster known as a bloater, and Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) torturing and killing Joel — Episode 3 is the opposite.—
Maira Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow was popular enough that fans wanted a solo story, but the studio didn't bother to make it until her character was already dead in the major timeline, then skipped the theatrical release, which Johansson sued them about.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
19 Apr. 2025
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So much so that Gillaspie didn’t bother to even grab a towel last summer when a pitching coach yelled into the visiting showers to alert him that Triple-A El Paso manager Pete Zamora needed to see him.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2025
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Trump’s supporters responded to the ruling with fury, with some calling for the administration to ignore the emergency decision.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
21 Apr. 2025
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Daredevil wails on them with (non-lethal!) fury, whereas Frank… well, he is called The Punisher.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
15 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Too often, however, the temptation to blame individuals or groups for housing ills distracts from the actual debate and prevents all stakeholders from discovering their mutual interests.—
Matt Frazier,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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The scientists now plan on developing the technology further, which will include boosting its ability to filter out distracting background noises such as those produced by body movements.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Apr. 2025
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For much of the call, Mills leaned hard on federal deficit hysteria to justify spending cuts for essential public services his constituents rely on.—
Letters to the editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 Apr. 2025
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But here, Clooney has recast himself as journalistic hero Edward R. Murrow, who in the early 1950s defied U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and his efforts to stoke anti-communist hysteria through the media.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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This tactic—arresting judges for their courtroom decisions—has disturbing echoes in other countries where judicial independence has been undermined: in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey, and in other places where democracy has given way to executive supremacy.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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No doubt, climate change threatens to muck it all up, disturbing patterns that have existed for centuries.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Frenzy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frenzy. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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