raged

past tense of rage

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of raged Total terror raged for a month or more. Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025 The Barbz quickly worked to shut that notion down, but the debate raged on between the two fanbases. Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 26 Sep. 2025 Fires raged, tsunamis struck the coast, and entire neighborhoods disappeared. Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025 As the Tush Push discourse raged Sunday night following the Chiefs’ 20-17 loss to the Eagles, another debate started. Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025 At times, officials, including senior advisor Stephen Miller, have raged against federal judges for standing in their way by issuing nationwide injunctions, some of which Sotomayor and her colleagues have then had brought before them. Dan Gooding gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025 After all, the American right famously raged at former quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other players for taking a knee during the National Anthem, beginning in 2016, in protest of police brutality against people of color. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025 The conflict has raged for nearly 23 months and resulted in 64,871 Palestinians being killed in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025 There are now over 300 of them, and a spirited debate over their nature has raged for two years. Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for raged
Verb
  • Junior tight end Bennett Jordan outjumped two defenders, somehow caught it, and the Mountain Brook team stormed the end zone.
    Grace Raynor, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The Tigers-Guardians series brings plenty of storylines after Cleveland stormed back to take the division.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Sean Longstaff steamed in to give Adams a shove.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to using Brussels sprouts in salads, they can be roasted, steamed or sauteed.
    Bethany Thayer, Freep.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The juice is extracted, boiled, cleaned of impurities, and crystallized.
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The recipe calls for the watery stalks to be boiled in meat broth and served chilled, accompanied with ketchup and anchovies.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The result was a gonzo spaghetti Western that seethed with anti-colonialist sentiment and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Many also seethed over the fact that some of these same teams had memorialized George Floyd, the Black man murdered on video by Derek Chauvin, then a Minneapolis police officer, in 2020, whose death set off a nationwide wave of street demonstrations.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025

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

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