as in angry
feeling or showing anger
the big increase in cable rates prompted a flood of irate calls and letters
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Recent Examples of irate
Smith’s initial attempt at a handmade bat didn’t go well, and Holman was irate.
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Zack Meisel, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Some lawmakers been bombarded with constituent phone calls and berated at town halls by voters irate at the dramatic cuts to the federal government.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
So, for now, umpires, batters, and the occasional irate manager can still meet at home plate to snarl over balls and strike calls.
—Julia Andersen, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
So what starts as a simple group attack against one animal can feel like you’re stuck in a stampede with multiple alien monsters getting rather irate.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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Zack Meisel, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Some lawmakers been bombarded with constituent phone calls and berated at town halls by voters irate at the dramatic cuts to the federal government.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
So, for now, umpires, batters, and the occasional irate manager can still meet at home plate to snarl over balls and strike calls.
—Julia Andersen, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
So what starts as a simple group attack against one animal can feel like you’re stuck in a stampede with multiple alien monsters getting rather irate.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irate
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An angry man, the same one from earlier, bellows at Jackson as he is muscled off the ball, and there are more expletives as Chelsea pass it backwards after getting close to Everton’s penalty area.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers to eject protestors from town hall meetings in their districts Sunday, after several GOP lawmakers have faced angry constituents questioning his administration’s policies in recent weeks.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Before the arrest, some indignant residents took to social media to speculate about a possible motive — alleging without proof that unscrupulous developers or even the city itself may have orchestrated the acts.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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And the prime minister of Greenland, Mute B. Egede, said in an indignant statement that there would be no meetings between U.S. officials and Greenland’s government.—
Tim Balk,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Trump’s second administration has opened with a furious blitz of conservative policy focused around deportations, deep cuts to federal agencies and tariffs.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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The shipyard has been hiring at a furious pace – 5,300 in 2023, 4,100 in 2024, and another 3,000 projected this year – to meet the Navy’s production schedule.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
30 Apr. 2025
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Gotta start earlier, and maybe involve OG mad Bridges more.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Told the victim was mad because the suspect stepped on his shoes, Torre said the right thing to do would have been to wipe his shoes clean and walk away.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2025
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Sierra Space’s experiment involved two phases to determine the best ballistic fabric options.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
24 Apr. 2025
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The agreement includes rent, setup costs, and the cost of installing ballistic glass, which will be shared by the city and property owner.—
Hema Sivanandam,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2025
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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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“Irate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irate. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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