as in to huff
to talk loudly and wildly
she was embarrassed when her friend began fulminating at the restaurant about what's wrong with today's kids
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In it, the president ranged broadly, zipping back and forth between telling stories, spouting political diatribes, singing songs from his childhood, phoning Fidel Castro, broadcasting from Moscow, and fulminating against enemies real and imagined.
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Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
Asked to explain an apparent (but not real) discrepancy in a progress report EcoHealth submitted to the government, Daszak started to answer, but a theatrically fulminating Griffith cut him off.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
At that moment of high drama, one environmental protester in the audience after another got to their feet and began to fulminate about the climate.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
Elon Musk has spent months fulminating against diversity, equity, and inclusion and, at times, promoting far-right theories, like The Great Replacement, on his platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
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Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
Asked to explain an apparent (but not real) discrepancy in a progress report EcoHealth submitted to the government, Daszak started to answer, but a theatrically fulminating Griffith cut him off.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
At that moment of high drama, one environmental protester in the audience after another got to their feet and began to fulminate about the climate.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
Elon Musk has spent months fulminating against diversity, equity, and inclusion and, at times, promoting far-right theories, like The Great Replacement, on his platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
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