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Recent Examples of feverishly
Inside Friendly Arctic, a local printing shop, circular machines with long metal branches spin feverishly.
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Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 31 Dec. 2025
The new flick’s trailer shows Pierre’s hands feverishly sketching the 2025 inauguration night gown.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 17 Dec. 2025
While Will is feverishly negotiating with a powerful vicar who wants to censor Love’s Labor’s Lost, he is devastated by the 1596 loss of his son to the plague.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025
News channels with noise that litters the scene are feverishly traded for upbeat music chosen to lift spirits rather than allow the group to sit with the stark reality for more than a handful of minutes.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
Among the new cohort was Wu Fei, 32, feverishly touted by local media as China’s youngest astronaut ever to make it to space.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
The group spent the next week feverishly uploading data and scientific protocols to an online repository and transferring access to park staff whose jobs seemed more secure.
—Gloria Liu, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
According to reporting from Reuters, India’s textile exporters are feverishly probing European markets for new opportunities.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
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.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 31 Dec. 2025
The new flick’s trailer shows Pierre’s hands feverishly sketching the 2025 inauguration night gown.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 17 Dec. 2025
While Will is feverishly negotiating with a powerful vicar who wants to censor Love’s Labor’s Lost, he is devastated by the 1596 loss of his son to the plague.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025
News channels with noise that litters the scene are feverishly traded for upbeat music chosen to lift spirits rather than allow the group to sit with the stark reality for more than a handful of minutes.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
Among the new cohort was Wu Fei, 32, feverishly touted by local media as China’s youngest astronaut ever to make it to space.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
The group spent the next week feverishly uploading data and scientific protocols to an online repository and transferring access to park staff whose jobs seemed more secure.
—Gloria Liu, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
According to reporting from Reuters, India’s textile exporters are feverishly probing European markets for new opportunities.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
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.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for feverishly
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Coon’s Agnes is a broken woman desperately looking for companionship following the devastating loss of her son and the physical and emotional violence inflicted on her by her ex-husband.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
9 Jan. 2026
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This franchise desperately needs elite talent, and the best chance of securing that is by tanking for as high a draft pick as possible.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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First-year Arkansas Coach Ryan Silverfield and staff are busily in the process of restocking the roster -- at quarterback and many key defensive positions -- through the portal, as has become the custom in recent years for the Razorbacks and the rest of the FBS.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
3 Jan. 2026
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Sohn lived busily, working for a trading company in the 1980s and ’90s, even being deployed to California and Southeast Asia.—
Gawon Bae,
CNN Money,
25 Dec. 2025
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At the bottom of the hill, Phillips' husband was frantically searching for someone who could help him.—
Michele Gile,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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One of the women described a crowd surge as people frantically tried to escape from a basement nightclub up a flight of stairs and through a narrow door.—
Jamey Keaten,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 2026
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Venezuela may not be the sole source of cocaine, nor a major conduit for fentanyl, but dismantling a regime that actively protects and profits from transnational criminal networks unquestionably degrades those networks’ capacity to operate.—
Timothy M. Herbst,
Hartford Courant,
13 Jan. 2026
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Students, patients, detainees and members of nine partner organizations actively took part in the work, empowering the city’s most fragile communities.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Granted, by the time the Jet Skis are swinging crazily in the air, Nathan has only been onboard for a few hours.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
7 Oct. 2025
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That seems like a crazily low number of songs.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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The vines climb to about 6 feet tall, growing vigorously even through summer heat.—
Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Jan. 2026
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Prevost asks the new Pope, and the two men, beaming, shake hands vigorously.—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Jan. 2026
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Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2026
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This is a rebirth point, emotionally, energetically, and intuitively.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
30 Dec. 2025
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In a two- to three-quart bowl, whisk the eggs and add the maple syrup, milk, and vegetable oil, mixing energetically with the whisk.—
Jeffrey Steingarten,
Vogue,
23 Nov. 2025
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“Feverishly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feverishly. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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