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adjective

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noun

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Recent Examples of berserk
Adjective
The bounce is outrageous, the handclaps are berserk, and Myaap is as restless as ever, even rapping through the soaring chorus when most would just use it as a breather. Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2023 Dude started another fight, but this was even more berserk than the first. Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
Noun
There’s no evidence to suggest that the bear went berserk after overdosing, as the trailer, which went viral in December, shows. Michael O'Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023 There’s no evidence to suggest that the bear went berserk after overdosing, as the trailer, which went viral in December, shows. Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for berserk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for berserk
Adverb
  • For a time, all is chaos, the men frantically running, apparently without direction or strategy.
    Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • Looking ahead, this will force three major changes: smaller companies will close or be bought out, businesses will frantically look for suppliers outside China, and consumers will ultimately pay higher prices.
    AllBusiness, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • The counselor also told police Trotman had had a previous psychotic break in which he was found wandering the woods.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Lewis prescribed Price anti-psychotic medication after a mental health referral Sept. 1.
    Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • Tank Adams, is another favorite cowboy out of Oklahoma.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 13 May 2025
  • South Florida Soul Rodeo 2025: Black cowboy culture and live R&B Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter Tour is not making a stop in Florida, but people will be partaking in cowboy culture at the South Florida Soul Rodeo this weekend.
    Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
Adverb
  • Including: a Hitchcockian crime feature with high-fashion sensibilities, a culinary film that critiques perfectionism in a manner that would make Whiplash proud, and a wildly underrated psychological thriller with one of the most demented performances in recent memory.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • While the school choice movement says their goal is to create competition in education, the measure could result in wildly different classroom experiences for students.
    Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • But the moves also undercut the president’s madman strategy.
    Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Suppose tomorrow that madman in North Korea decides to strike the United States?
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • All of it wild-caught.
    Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Our first stop is in a wild-looking stretch 200 yards south of the railroad tracks and State Street.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Police said ballistic evidence was recovered at the scene, but no arrests have been made.
    Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 19 May 2025
  • Shell casings were recovered at the Greenwood Street scene and ballistic evidence from the van.
    Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • But some of the mayor’s advisers and allies pressed her to look elsewhere, describing Mr. Soboroff as a remnant of Los Angeles’s past with a reputation for being something of a showboat.
    Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Stephanie Weeks, a Black actress and director who is a frequent Target Margin collaborator, wears one of these WHITE sashes as Julie, the showboat’s leading lady, as does Edwin Joseph, playing her husband and co-star, Steve.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025

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“Berserk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/berserk. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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