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
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
Bondi Beach, Sydney — For Australia’s tiny Jewish population, Bondi Beach was a refuge within a vast country that offered sanctuary to families fleeing a seething hate that killed six million of their kind within the lifetime of some of their oldest members.
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Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
20 Dec. 2025
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
16 Apr. 2026
So Isaac and Mulligan have done seething resentment before in the most watchable way.
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Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
There is no doubt in my mind, however, that Dubas is absolutely seething.
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Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
Bondi Beach, Sydney — For Australia’s tiny Jewish population, Bondi Beach was a refuge within a vast country that offered sanctuary to families fleeing a seething hate that killed six million of their kind within the lifetime of some of their oldest members.
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Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
20 Dec. 2025
Verb
Her Catherine is less defined by the quirky, appealing eccentricities of Mary-Louise Parker’s performance in the original 2000 Broadway staging, but is girded by a certain angry resignation, fearful of what life might have in store, furious too, yet seething with a will to defy it all.
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Greg Evans,
Deadline,
16 Apr. 2026
So Isaac and Mulligan have done seething resentment before in the most watchable way.
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Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 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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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.
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Rumors of guest list drama are swirling Unsurprisingly, Swift and Kelce have been tight-lipped about wedding details, but keeping an event this huge under wraps is an uphill battle.
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In May, confirming rumors that had been swirling for months, Anthropic’s life sciences lead Eric Kauderer-Abrams publicly acknowledged that the company is building out its own wet labs and hiring biologists to run its own basic research.
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The market is trying to recover, but elite collectors seemingly want only trophy works; raging global conflicts, economic uncertainty, and political turmoil have whittled demand down to the safest names.
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So the curiosity about his record collection has been raging away.
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Workers feed iron ore, coal and limestone into the furnaces’ top and use long sticks to punch open holes for purified molten iron to flow out from the bottom.
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The region’s glassmakers are known for their technical precision, decorative skill and ability to turn molten glass into objects of remarkable delicacy.
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Ray continued his reinvention into a two-seam fastball pitcher, churning efficient contact outs and taking a shutout into the eighth inning before allowing an unearned run.
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With more shaking or churning, these grains grow and separate from the watery, naturally low-fat buttermilk.
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When in doubt, stick to food that is cooked and served steaming hot.
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Enjoy a steaming plate of weekend-only biscuits and gravy.
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In a sizzling dissent for the court's three liberals, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson castigated the majority for diminishing not just individual religious rights, but the power of Congress to legislate.
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The sizzling heat will stick around through the weekend with high temperatures in the low 90s.
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That’s the question that has been whirling around Hollywood since the news broke that Amazon MGM Studios was dropping the feature just months after Amazon entered into a $50 billion investment with Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
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With the Splash Into Summer there, there were several sprinklers whirling around near several parts of the path giving people a chance to cool off.
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“Seething.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seething. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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