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to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
she seethed at the very thought of the staff's staggering incompetence
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Recent Examples of seethed
For the next several years, Hostetler seethed on the bench.
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Tim Rohan, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026
Sean Payton stood behind a lectern in a small room deep inside Levi’s Stadium back in August and seethed.
—Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Mace seethed at the Ethics panel’s move.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2025
His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis.
—News Desk, Artforum, 23 Oct. 2025
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
Tim Rohan, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026
Sean Payton stood behind a lectern in a small room deep inside Levi’s Stadium back in August and seethed.
—Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Mace seethed at the Ethics panel’s move.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2025
His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis.
—News Desk, Artforum, 23 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seethed
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Getty Images In the frenzied state of whether the Los Angeles Dodgers have an unfair economic advantage – especially after Kyle Tucker signed his record four-year, $240 million deal with the club – talks of a salary cap have swirled.—
Maury Brown,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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A number of foreign correspondents posted messages Monday as speculation swirled that the international coverage will bear a substantial amount of cuts.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
26 Jan. 2026
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My friend told me that protests had also raged in working-class areas along Tabarsi Boulevard, on the other side of the city, and in the suburbs of Sakhtaman and Sayedi.—
Davood Moradian,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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Firefighters had to enter apartments to shield people who were trapped near windows as flames raged.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
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For months, the rumor mill has churned as first one prominent name and then another surfaced as a possible entrant to the race.—
Andrew Graham,
Sacbee.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The storm has churned to the north and east, dropping snow in states like Arkansas, Kansas, Maryland and Oklahoma and bringing freezing rain and ice to Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
26 Jan. 2026
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The windows steamed with the warmth of the revelry inside.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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In recent weeks, as Indiana steamed toward the national-title game, Cuban gave even more.—
Keith O’Brien,
The Atlantic,
17 Jan. 2026
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Miso contains several bacterial strains as long as it isn't boiled or heated.—
Amber J. Tresca,
Verywell Health,
29 Jan. 2026
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Claxton boiled it down to the same thing, only with a player’s bluntness.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
25 Jan. 2026
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Bugti said militants stormed the home of a Baloch laborer in Gwadar and killed five women and three children.—
Abdul Sattar,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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After all, five years later, there is still a serious debate in this country about whether people who stormed the nation’s capital were justified.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2026
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In a desperate attempt to protect her baby, the victim whirled around, confronted Aherne and grabbed the knife in the stranger’s hand, her infant child falling from the changing table onto the floor during the scuffle, cops said.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Here it gets whirled with Parmesan and a handful of herbs that take it to the next level.—
Maggie Meyer Glisan,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Dec. 2025
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Some have had to abandon their homes, with all of their belongings still inside, only to find out later that those houses were burned to the ground.—
Edwidge Danticat,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
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Fort Worth firefighter Caleb Halvorson, who was critically burned while responding to a house fire in Fort Worth's historic Southside last September, shared a powerful response following a Tarrant County grand jury's decision not to charge the suspect in that fire with arson.—
Ginger Allen,
CBS News,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Seethed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seethed. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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