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Recent Examples of freaking Some accredited investors have 'no freaking clue' Even investors who already qualify as accredited could welcome, and benefit from, such a test, experts say. Stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025 Well, my freaking agent had spoiled it. Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freaking
Adjective
  • The three cursed housemates were sent to the Exit Room, where their fate would be decided.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Ripley spent four movies trying to keep the blasted things off our home world, but those pesky Xenomorphs are coming planetside anyway in Alien: Earth, the new Alien TV series.
    Ian Stokes, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Her ballerina background, however, is fairly extraneous, even with De Armas made to stare solemnly at that blasted music box during her rare moments of rest.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Once the selloff happened, the Twins were destined to be awful for the final two months, all but sealing Baldelli’s fate.
    Aaron Gleeman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That’s the awful low; but Dunne’s story is ultimately one of redemption.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Our prayers are with the victims and their families during this terrible tragedy.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Rather, the wretched truth is a reminder that history’s wins are often, if not always, accompanied by terrible loss — that, sometimes, what was cast as victory may have actually been defeat.
    Andrea Williams, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • CatVideoFest 2025 has clawed past the $1 million mark, an achievement for the franchise launched in 2016 by filmmaker Will Braden, who apparently does a darn good job curating the best cat videos from across global social media.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Well, so much for that, though Indy does look like a pretty darn salty group.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The ice packs had long melted, but the cans of soda were pretty dang refreshing.
    Francesca Krempa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • This smells strongly of rotten eggs.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
  • And adding insult to injury, the whole plant smells like rotten peanut butter.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Freaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freaking. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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