as in boiling
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as in raging
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
Jack Dunn, Variety, 8 May 2025
This helps explain why Gabbard elicits a seething hatred from people like Frum, Clinton, and Nichols.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
The only thing that is missing is evidence of seething libs.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Kennedy Center director Richard Grenell has now delivered a seething response to the performers’ plan.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 8 May 2025
This helps explain why Gabbard elicits a seething hatred from people like Frum, Clinton, and Nichols.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Verb
To Bondi and her allies, the outdated portraits offered proof that the department was riddled with suspect personnel seething at the election results.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
The only thing that is missing is evidence of seething libs.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seething
Adjective
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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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One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Scientific American,
3 Mar. 2020
Verb
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The move enraged both civilians and public officials throughout the country, with questions swirling about Stokes’ qualifications.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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With Mendoza’s stock climbing and the Jets still searching for answers at quarterback, speculation is already swirling about what this move could mean.—
Rowan Fisher-Shotton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
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Another is an anarchist raging against a large corporation.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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The third model to ever wear a raging bull on its hood, the Miura wasn’t even supposed to exist.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Her sculptural bookshelf and semicircular floor lamps possess a molten heft—their softened edges appearing raw and time-weathered.—
Leonora Epstein,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 2025
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This result provides the first concrete proof of the technical feasibility of using thorium in a molten-salt reactor system.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Images show the Jayhawk hovering over dark green, churning waters while a small orange life raft bobs below, tossed by wind and waves.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Still, the car lacks both the outrageousness of its predecessors and the stomach-churning performance of its descendants.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Additionally, steaming away wrinkles can give you that high-end feel typically found in a spa or hotel atmosphere.—
Shivani Vyas,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Nov. 2025
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At Curry in a Hurry, Sajjad Chowdhury ladles steaming goat curry into a bowl for a customer while reflecting on the news the very building where investigators say the high-stakes poker games took place is just a block away.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The Astronaut Center of China (ACC) shared footage of the astronauts preparing New Orleans–style chicken wings and black pepper steak, and savoring the sizzling results.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
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What made our top 10 list of sizzling moments?—
Brittany Talarico,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Waterspouts are whirling columns of air and water mist above bodies of water and can take two forms, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Sometimes hawks rise above Helm’s whirling bar cloud – opportunists.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Seething.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seething. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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