as in boiling
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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 seething
David Morgan, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2025
Lead singer Brandon Coleman, as usual, puts forth a commanding, soulful vocal that encapsulates the lyric’s seething exasperation and longing for less division.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2025
Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
For most people, action, cultivating a sense of agency, beats seething.
—Wendy Nelson Espeland, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
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Adjective
The film's brash, documentary-style production perfectly captured Hackman's character, a seething, sadistic NYC cop seeking to bust a ring of heroin smugglers — like Ahab on the hunt for the white whale.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2025
Lead singer Brandon Coleman, as usual, puts forth a commanding, soulful vocal that encapsulates the lyric’s seething exasperation and longing for less division.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
But this seething primordial soup—the stuff of future galaxies, stars, planets and people—only lasted a few microseconds.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
For most people, action, cultivating a sense of agency, beats seething.
—Wendy Nelson Espeland, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seething
Adjective
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More humane methods of killing lobsters pre-boiling include a sharp knife through the head, electrical stunning, or freezing.—
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semafor.com,
29 Dec. 2025
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Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius) — as a potential hospitable environment for life.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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The team also revealed that the resulting dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) fibers exhibit intrinsic softness, with an overall Young’s modulus of 37 MPa, enabling electrically controllable actuation modes with high freedom in bending, compression, and three-dimensional(3D) swirling motions.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Mar. 2026
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That type of public funding may be harder to come by with so many questions now swirling around Hill and McCrory.—
Andrew Brown,
Hartford Courant,
11 Mar. 2026
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Two firefighters were hurt as a raging five-alarm fire destroyed a Brooklyn warehouse and seriously damaged two other buildings early Wednesday, the FDNY said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2026
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The reality is that a war is still raging in the Middle East, and no matter what anyone says, when the missiles and drones start flying, the level of certainty fades.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
10 Mar. 2026
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Like other times, the molten rock was confined within Kilauea's summit crater inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and hasn’t threatened homes or buildings.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Mar. 2026
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Heat from the reactor is carried by a secondary sodium loop to intermediate heat exchangers, which then transfer energy to a molten-salt loop connected to thermal storage tanks.—
David Szondy
March 08,
New Atlas,
8 Mar. 2026
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Something has got to give, meaning parents must make a stomach-churning sacrifice somewhere.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
8 Mar. 2026
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Rosi shows us cranes and other instruments churning away, with no one in sight.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
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Just presented to you like a steaming basket of biscuits.—
Emily Elias,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
4 Mar. 2026
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If the first four episodes of Bridgerton’s swoon-worthy fourth season were about desperate, hungry yearning, then the final four were more about, er, consummation—complete with secret trysts, steaming hot baths, false identities, and genuinely big shocks.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
26 Feb. 2026
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Beyond birria, popular menu items include the ChoriPollo, burritos and sizzling fajitas made fresh.—
Sunny Hubler,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Mar. 2026
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Vucevic then spearheaded a supremely efficient first quarter by Boston’s offense, which shot a sizzling 70% from the field (14-for-20) and made all six of its 3-point attempts.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
28 Feb. 2026
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The swirling, whirling mass approaches like a steam train, picking up thousands of tons of matter on its descent, throwing clouds of snow into the air as its gathers speeds of up to 130 kph (80 mph).—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
22 Feb. 2026
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They got engaged, and later married during the set, surrounded by the artist and whirling revelers.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Seething.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seething. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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