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as in stormed
to express one's anger usually violently
the series of bad calls prompted the coach to rage about the refereeing
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as in steamed
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
still raging about his assistant's burnt pies, the pastry cook forgot to add the egg whites to his cake batter
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Recent Examples of raged
As the party raged on LACMA’s campus, hundreds of parade participants hurriedly prepared for their debuts in the corners of nearby streets and parking lots.
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Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
By Hannah Miller, Bloomberg Before the World Cup started, fans raged over the cost of tickets — the highest ever for the tournament.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
Thousands of bodies spilled out of the Mojave Tent as the singer raged onstage, two weekends in a row.
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Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
By July 2, when Orlando temperatures topped 101 degrees, wildfires had raged for more than 40 days, burning more than 300,000 acres across the region.
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Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
As the Spurs lead shrunk, the roar of the crowd inside MSG raged.
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Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
11 June 2026
Three cases nearly overwhelmed us, while 3,000 raged in Liberia.
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Tom Frieden,
STAT,
6 June 2026
As protests raged outside banks, leading pundits and politicians suggested ceding power to the President to restore order.
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Sarita Gupta,
Time,
2 June 2026
Bromley raged against the director’s gutlessness, but Adele was competing against actors with a hundred times more experience.
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Jonathan Franzen,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
By Hannah Miller, Bloomberg Before the World Cup started, fans raged over the cost of tickets — the highest ever for the tournament.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
Thousands of bodies spilled out of the Mojave Tent as the singer raged onstage, two weekends in a row.
—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
By July 2, when Orlando temperatures topped 101 degrees, wildfires had raged for more than 40 days, burning more than 300,000 acres across the region.
—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
As the Spurs lead shrunk, the roar of the crowd inside MSG raged.
—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
11 June 2026
Three cases nearly overwhelmed us, while 3,000 raged in Liberia.
—
Tom Frieden,
STAT,
6 June 2026
As protests raged outside banks, leading pundits and politicians suggested ceding power to the President to restore order.
—
Sarita Gupta,
Time,
2 June 2026
Bromley raged against the director’s gutlessness, but Adele was competing against actors with a hundred times more experience.
—
Jonathan Franzen,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for raged
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Witnesses told the court that, on July 30, 2025, Buck-Hayes stormed into Vogler's Danville office and doused him with gasoline before chasing him out of the building and setting him on fire, according to Cardinal News.
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Gunther took out Sami Zayn after a delay, but Sami stormed back into the match and hammered Gunther with punches.
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The French capital is in the midst of a heat wave — the day of the show was the city’s hottest ever June day, until Wednesday eclipsed it — and the model’s toes steamed inside the oblong footwear.
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But don’t miss the crispy duck and walnut, and matsutake steamed chicken at the equally satisfying but more casual Yunnan specialty restaurant, Horizon.
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The Cottonwood Fire had burned nearly 72,000 acres and is at 0% containment.
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Idling trucks, sandbag piles and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning.
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When Burgess put both their names on the sign outside their Bridgeport, Connecticut, workshop, Fuller seethed.
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Despite performing alongside the Sailors, Burney quietly seethed over the way Guzmán treated the band, and Fernández in particular.
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Water does not need to be boiled for showering or bathing, provided that people don't drink water while doing so.
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While the properly prepared, boiled three times, tender spring leaves of this plant are the main ingredient in poke sallet, a fixture of Southern cuisine, the plant is truly toxic.
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Indigenous men grieved but also fumed when women were attacked.
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Racial tensions surrounding Clark are especially high right now, after a group of racially idolatrous media members fumed outrage over her walking out with Morgan Wallen at his concert last weekend.
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The quake, which struck during morning rush hour, also mildly shook Tokyo.
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One witness said they were forced to evacuate as the earthquake shook buildings, while another reported that cracks formed on the side of their building, according to the outlet.
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“Raged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raged. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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