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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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Aliens remain topic of interest Questions around the existence of aliens and life beyond Earth have swirled for years, with interest reignited by recent hearings on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAPs.—
Kate Perez,
USA Today,
16 Feb. 2026
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As scrutiny over the NBA All-Star Game swirled, Anthony Edwards expressed skepticism that this year’s new format would finally improve the level of competitiveness.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2026
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Battles have raged since 2007 over whether the Supreme Court decided the original case properly.—
John Moritz,
Hartford Courant,
13 Feb. 2026
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Some of Southwest’s A-listers openly raged on platforms such as X, with many complaints focused on those passengers being forced to place carry-on bags in compartments way to the back of the plane, a different experience from the prior boarding regime.—
Dallas Morning News,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 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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They can be roasted, steamed, or sautéed and served as a delightful side dish with nothing more than a squeeze of lemon.—
Riley Wofford,
Martha Stewart,
21 Feb. 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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On Saturday morning, Biles ordered breakfast room service (eggs, boiled or scrambled) and visited a local gym.—
Rob LeDonne,
Vogue,
19 Feb. 2026
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To prepare ayahuasca, a plant containing DMT is boiled with another plant that contains a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), such as harmaline, and the resulting brew is then consumed.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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Fans stormed the court in celebration at the buzzer.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2026
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Fans stormed the court at Pauley Pavilion in celebration.—
Beth Harris,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
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The journey started as a boy in Chicago, where sirens whirled through Rizzs’ neighborhood when the White Sox won the pennant in 1959.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
27 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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Those earlier rules allowed power plants that burned a particularly dirty form of coal called lignite coal to emit more mercury than plants that burned other forms of the fossil fuel.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
20 Feb. 2026
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Burn rates rise during times of high network activity, sometimes leading to more ETH being burned than minted through block rewards.—
Ethan M. Stone,
Ascend Agency,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Seethed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seethed. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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