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as in angry
feeling or showing anger a furious customer demanding to see the manager

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Recent Examples of furious Throughout the year, a furious Musk decamped from his incorporation in Delaware. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025 The furious, passionate Carthaginian queen reappears as a shade in the Underworld. Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 Other teams will be furious Start with the Raptors, who had Bird rights, as Leonard’s old team, to pay Leonard more than the Clippers, so external payments would have bridged that gap. Jesse Silvertown, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Skylar Diggins-Smith led a furious comeback in the third quarter as her four 3-pointers turned a 21-point deficit into a 14-point victory. Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for furious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for furious
Adjective
  • In 2010, Shannan Gilbert placed a frantic and incoherent 911 call, begging for help and claiming someone was after her.
    Michael Ruiz , Jennifer Johnson, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • And that was only after a frantic scramble to get the snap off for Harrison Butker’s 59-yard kick to beat the clock going into the locker room.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • During periods of intense rainfall, the risk of flooding increases, particularly in low-lying and flood-prone areas.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Both require intense concentration, in order to be any good, and diligent practice, and both make use of imagination—which in tennis takes the form of anticipation—and creativity.
    Thomas Swick September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • One unbearable sequence has Chiang coming back angry in the middle of the day and suddenly raping Chuan in their bedroom.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In late July, centrist independent US Senator Angus King released a startlingly angry statement.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Researchers measured violent and property crime data from 2023, fatal car accidents, drug overdose deaths and excessive drinking rates.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Alderman Raymond Lopez, a Democrat from Chicago’s 15th Ward, wants Trump to send the National Guard to his city because of the violent crime to which people in his city are subjected.
    Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Can decades of quotidian contentment really hold a candle to the mad blush of first love?
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Poetry walks with me each step of my mad thinking.
    Rickey Laurentiis, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Zack recently completed five weeks of intensive training with his handler, Deputy Trisha List.
    Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Measles, for example, was eliminated in the US in 2000 through intensive vaccination.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Mistaken as the murderer, Mary is stoned and buried alive in a shallow grave by the enraged townspeople.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 20 Aug. 2025
  • An enraged Trump held up the attack as symptomatic of the deteriorating conditions in the capital, vowing to take drastic measures to restore the city to its former glory.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • So all of us were just young and hungry and had the energy to be ferocious.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In the pic, Garfield plays a legendary leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Furious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/furious. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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