as in angry
feeling or showing anger
the big increase in cable rates prompted a flood of irate calls and letters
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Recent Examples of irate
The negative extremes should never be condoned, but sometimes being told — in the right way, and by the coaches, not irate parents — that attitudes are not right could help stop the slide.
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Laura Williamson, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
Paul Sullivan has been dragged over the coals in the past by irate sports fans/Tribune letter writers for allegedly bringing politics into sports reporting, as if politics weren’t there to begin with.
—Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
Instead, staff mostly got screamed at by irate property owners.
—Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
After Peterson was called for an offensive foul in the first half, an irate Self argued with the officials and was tagged with two successive technicals — by different officials.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
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Laura Williamson, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
Paul Sullivan has been dragged over the coals in the past by irate sports fans/Tribune letter writers for allegedly bringing politics into sports reporting, as if politics weren’t there to begin with.
—Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
Instead, staff mostly got screamed at by irate property owners.
—Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
After Peterson was called for an offensive foul in the first half, an irate Self argued with the officials and was tagged with two successive technicals — by different officials.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irate
Adjective
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That was the result of angry partisans taking seriously Trump’s bogus election-fraud claims.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
27 Mar. 2026
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House Republicans are angry that the bill passed early Friday by the Senate does not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.—
Lisa Mascaro,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Upon his return, Tagovailoa gave a rather indignant response to those who questioned his NFL future.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
10 Mar. 2026
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Still, these many practicalities fuse with the film’s emotional stories of indignant independence and romantic conflict thanks to a sense of analytical observation that is inherently social.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Shortly after administering the technical to an enraged Self, referee Doug Sirmons hit KU’s coach with another tech, ostensibly for remaining on the court instead of returning to the coach’s box.—
Gary Bedore
March 5,
Kansas City Star,
5 Mar. 2026
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Latinx people of conscience recognize our own tios, tias, primos, primas, mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers in the brown faces being livestreamed with blood and agony pouring into enraged mouths asking for help.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The policy Uthmeier is outraged about, known as the Rooney Rule, was first introduced in 2002.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2026
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The presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Columbia, and Northwestern subsequently resigned, unable to justify their decisions either to Congress or to their own outraged board members and donors.—
Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Police said the two male juveniles became angered when the other three would not take them to buy marijuana.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
20 Jan. 2026
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Soon, the faces of the angered New York City citizens around her soften.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Britain and France were furious—the canal carried oil and other goods that were vital to European economies—and determined to take back control.—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Conservative hardliners in the House woke up furious that their Senate counterparts had passed a deal without ICE and Border Patrol funding in the dead of night.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Some celebrities have gotten mad at him about the interactions, and some of them laugh about it with him.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
29 Mar. 2026
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Us senior surfers need to stick together to hold off the hordes of nasty agro kidbots that are violently intent on world domination and the spread of nuclear surf rabies and mad Red Bull disease.—
Corky Carroll,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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More than 100 aircraft launched from land and sea in the first day, with cyber and space campaigns degrading Iranian communications and sensors while the air campaign struck command-and-control centers, ballistic-missile sites, naval forces and intelligence infrastructure.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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Nations now need to defend everywhere, all the time, against threats ranging from a $1,000 quadcopter with a half-pound of explosives to multimillion-dollar ballistic and hypersonic missiles.—
Brynn Tannehill,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Irate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irate. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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