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as in desperately
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as in busily
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Recent Examples of feverishly
Other actors stacked up projects like poker chips, supplementing TV work with movies, theatre gigs, or branding deals, feverishly hedging against the risks of a shrinking industry.
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Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
That’s the way Fleur looks at Julian in real life too — adoring and feverishly in love, so when Fleur announces that the pair are getting married over dinner with friends, everyone responds with joy and delight.
—Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Even his detractors can agree on that, although the cinephiles who feverishly pursued this particular grail may not support this resolution.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Right now, Indian diplomats and lobbyists in Washington are working feverishly to engineer a rapprochement.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
The quotable cult classic has since been adapted into a feverishly beloved musical, which first opened off-Broadway in 2014.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
That’s the way Fleur looks at Julian in real life too — adoring and feverishly in love, so when Fleur announces that the pair are getting married over dinner with friends, everyone responds with joy and delight.
—Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Even his detractors can agree on that, although the cinephiles who feverishly pursued this particular grail may not support this resolution.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Right now, Indian diplomats and lobbyists in Washington are working feverishly to engineer a rapprochement.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
The quotable cult classic has since been adapted into a feverishly beloved musical, which first opened off-Broadway in 2014.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for feverishly
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Sitting at 1-2-1 on the season, the Dallas Cowboys head into their Week 5 game against the New York Jets desperately needing a victory to keep pace in the NFC East.—
Reice Shipley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Oct. 2025
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The result has been a less vibrant, less productive network of private enterprises unable to provide the economic growth that Cuba so desperately needs.—
Joseph J. Gonzalez,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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That has Eva Thomas, a writer and filmmaker from Walpole Island First Nation, busily working the room during an Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) breakfast at TIFF‘s Lightbox headquarters.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
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According to PreCrime Labs, the threat research team at BforeAI, criminals have been busily creating new domains to offer everything from fake merchandise to non-existent free streaming of the games.—
Emma Woollacott,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Indonesian rescue teams are frantically searching for scores of young students buried for two days under rubble in Sidoarjo, East Java, after their Islamic boarding school collapsed on them during afternoon prayers.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, her parents frantically hide the rift from their audience.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Josh was actively involved in the family business growing up.—
Nasha Smith,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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That seems like a crazily low number of songs.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Guessing crazily at the future, the gambler is granted, briefly, the gift of now.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Testifying for the defense, variety show hosts Ed Sullivan, Garry Moore, and Perry Como vigorously stuck up for the medium that made them.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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Other Latin American countries that had suffered under military dictatorships vigorously prosecuted the perpetrators of human rights abuses, but Brazil did not follow suit.—
Omar G. Encarnación,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Sep. 2025
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Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Oct. 2025
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Small and mid-sized countries that were energetically pursuing Security Council reform have backed off and are waiting for a clear signal of what—if anything—Trump will say about it.—
Richard Gowan,
Time,
22 Sep. 2025
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That means that those kids had likely been playing energetically and enjoying their toddler life just before getting sick.—
Pia Pannaraj,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Feverishly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feverishly. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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