frenzies

present tense third-person singular of frenzy
as in crazes
to cause to go insane or as if insane local football fans who were frenzied by the fact that their team was going to the Super Bowl

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  • Famous for their made-to-order burgers and secret menu hacks, California-based In-N-Out has been flipping patties since 1948, building a devoted fan base that predates social media crazes.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The reality is that the global network has become a transmission mechanism for all kinds of manias and panics, just as the combination of printing and literacy temporarily increased the prevalence of millenarian sects and witch crazes.
    Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
Verb
  • What about him specifically bothers you especially in terms of poisoning the youth?
    Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Really, the accuracy is the one thing that bothers me with him.
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
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  • Another possibility is that there is a relic magnetic field that exists between galaxies which remains from the early universe and disturbs low-energy gamma-rays.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The water is perfectly clear — until someone brushes the side of the cave or disturbs the soft bottom, sending fine silt particles billowing into the beam of a headlamp.
    Jennifer Walker, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
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  • So, excited headlines about a blossoming romance between them certainly creates a narrative that distracts from all the negative news each has grappled with recently.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The constantly shifting allegiances are meant to form a twisty yarn in the aggregate, though the effect is largely just confusing — especially when Helen gets a subplot investigating her own past that distracts from her role as the chilly, withholding boss.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Bovino appears to be arguing with a man standing near Muñoz who says something that visibly upsets the chief.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Stone upsets Cline in District 5 District 5 incumbent Lisa Cline lost her south Charlotte district in a contest with challenger Cynthia Stone.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The Longhorns’ roster build confuses me.
    The Athletic College Basketball Staff, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • At her spring show, Marie-Adam Leenaerdt brought back the style, but her shiny spandex stocking version ensures no one confuses the look for child’s play.
    Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The result is slower, more volatile law-making — the kind of regulatory instability that unsettles investors.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • No humor benefits from being seen among other people so much as the kind that throws or unsettles you — a tension that is resolved, gloriously, when the audience collectively gives in and decides to roar with laughter.
    Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ask yourself what annoys you specifically about that behavior, Davis says.
    NPR, NPR, 28 Oct. 2025
  • There are days when my running annoys my wife, my children, or my colleagues.
    Nicholas Thompson, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
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