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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boiled over
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The avalanche ran over a steep band of cliffs that would have resulted in a devastating outcome had the subject been carried another few feet further.—
Jennifer McRae,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026 -
The animal bit his head, neck and leg before his mother ran over and scared it off.—
Cierra Morgan,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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The ghastly kills are there — innards are spilled on floors, knives go through temples, heads stuck on pikes expel vomitous discharge — but there’s little of the preceding back-and-forth that made such scenes notable in the past and at least conceptually justified the grotesquerie.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2026
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Surveillance video from that night shows a man wearing a Blackhawks jersey entering the store, then stumbling out before a struggle spilled into the street.—
Darius Johnson,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Boiled over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boiled%20over. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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