rampaged

verb

past tense of rampage
as in ranted

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  1. ranted
  2. raved
  3. carried on
  4. blustered
  5. took on
  6. fulminated
  7. raged
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  • Rinderknecht allegedly ranted to passengers about Luigi Mangione, who is accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, capitalism and vigilantism, The Associated Press reported.
    — Madeline Morrison, NBC news, 10 June 2026
  • But, for a pitcher who once famously ranted about fastball velocity, this all seems built on a pretty shaky foundation, given those wildly moving radar gun readings.
    — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 9 June 2026
Definition of ranted
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  • Victoria Phillips-Hunter from Carlisle, England, raved about the hospitality staff, having worked in hospitality herself.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
  • Such was the case last week when one of my sisters, Lulu, raved to me about Medicube’s PDRN Pink Peptide Serum.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 14 July 2026
Definition of raved
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  • That tradition is carried on by Gordon Kenny, the artist behind Double Wonderful, a (deliberately) inscrutable T-shirt brand.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • Harry ultimately carried on with the trip alone, while Meghan, Archie and Lilibet traveled to Britain from Portugal, where the family was vacationing, on July 9.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
Definition of carried on
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  • Trump blustered and lied and displayed himself in the worst possible light, of course, but Reza Pahlavi, the Shah’s son who lives in the United States and who many Iranians had reluctantly come to regard as a possible leader, also played his hand extremely badly.
    — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 16 May 2026
  • Trump has blustered, contradicted himself publicly, ramped-up rhetorically and then backed down, mostly without receiving obvious concessions.
    — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
Definition of blustered
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  • Jefferson took on the role of writing the first draft of the declaration.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
  • Ament didn’t quite reach his offensive potential at Tennessee, but this is not dissimilar to the gamble the Bucks once took on a young Antetokounmpo.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 24 June 2026
Definition of took on
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  • Some neighbors fulminated against the university, arguing that the extra events would bring more noise and traffic, and that the property tax-exempt institution would not pay its fair share.
    — Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Predictably, Khomeini fulminated about Carter’s visit.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Definition of fulminated
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  • In January 2025, as the LA wildfires raged, people placed bets on Polymarket, one of the leading prediction market platforms.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • These two characters have maybe two minutes of screentime between them, and yet a certain portion of the internet, and Elon Musk, have raged, gnashed teeth and howled to the wind about the way this denigrates a Greek classic.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
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