as in filled
possessing or covered with great numbers or amounts of something specified
a city government that is rife with malfeasance and corruption
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Recent Examples of rife
Right-wing book bans, rife in Escambia and throughout the South, are the product of a political moment.
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Ira Wells
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
The event threatened to inflame tensions that are rife in the restive city amid nearly 600 days of war in Gaza.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2025
Speculation is rife its Yokohama headquarters building will get sold, or one of its Japan plants will be turned into a casino.
—Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 26 May 2025
The same goes for selecting ads, namely that this user would be rife for ads on sporting related services and products.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
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Ira Wells
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
The event threatened to inflame tensions that are rife in the restive city amid nearly 600 days of war in Gaza.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2025
Speculation is rife its Yokohama headquarters building will get sold, or one of its Japan plants will be turned into a casino.
—Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 26 May 2025
The same goes for selecting ads, namely that this user would be rife for ads on sporting related services and products.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rife
Adjective
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So, what makes his coaching stand out in a crowded field of mentors and consultants?—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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Still, the cities did not seem overly crowded with tourists the way Paris, Rome and coastal Italy do in the late spring or summertime.—
Sunny Hubler,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Aug. 2025
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That’s a fraught term, one that carried social status, certainly, but also often meant exclusion, sometimes on comfortably and casually bigoted grounds.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
11 Aug. 2025
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The Kremlin confirmed that Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska to pursue a long-term resolution to the conflict, though both sides expect the process to be fraught.—
Emma Marsden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Aug. 2025
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The original Scary Movie franchise parodied the teen-slasher flicks that were so abundant in the late ’90s and aughts.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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But for humans, there can be some unpleasant conditions associated with swimming where sargassum is abundant, says LaPointe.—
Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The collection is awash in top Renaissance Italian and Flemish artists — Perugino, Veronese, Tintoretto, Van der Weyden, Brueghel the Younger — and houses a Normandy masterpiece: a luminous 1885 Monet seascape of the cliffs of Étretat.—
Seth Sherwood,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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Étoile, the Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino vehicle canceled after one season on Amazon Prime, is awash in elegant shots of ballerina pirouettes and the opulent interior of the Opéra Garnier in Paris — which served as the inspiration for the novel The Phantom of the Opera.—
Beatrice Verhoeven,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Aug. 2025
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How does a star with a packed schedule keep her look secure?—
Meghan Mahar,
Billboard,
19 Aug. 2025
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Woodinville’s close quarters are good for more than a packed wine-tasting itinerary.—
Zoe Baillargeon,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Football history is not replete with stories of teams that take the best part of a decade to come to fruition.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2025
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Social media is replete with political outrage, and playing to either a liberal or conservative audience is likely to draw attention.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Rife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rife. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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