as in to storm
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
the newspaper's blatantly biased coverage made a lot of readers steam
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Recent Examples of steam
Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
The buzzer barely finished echoing when white steam burst from the back of the backboard and purple streamers tumbled from the Chase Center rafters onto the cheering fans below.
—Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
Instead, green tea leaves are dried and often rolled or steamed to preserve their flavor and aroma before being packaged as loose leaves or in tea bags.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 26 Aug. 2025
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Verb
From Moon Milk to magnesium, steam rooms to cold plunges—how 250 days on the road traveler Daniel Scheffler’s rituals turn jet lag into renewal and offers a solid way to recover.
—Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
The buzzer barely finished echoing when white steam burst from the back of the backboard and purple streamers tumbled from the Chase Center rafters onto the cheering fans below.
—Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
Also, don't steam-clean laminate floors.
—Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
Instead, green tea leaves are dried and often rolled or steamed to preserve their flavor and aroma before being packaged as loose leaves or in tea bags.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steam
Verb
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Just five days later, on September 9, demonstrators stormed and set fire to key government buildings, deposing the administration, as the BBC reported.—
Javier Bastardo,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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And in a rural field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, a similar ceremony marked by moments of silence, the reading of names and the laying of wreaths, will honor the victims of Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed after crew members and passengers tried to storm the cockpit.—
Philip Marcelo,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Fair-weather waterspouts form along the base of clouds, starting on the water's surface and don't typically include high winds or thunderstorms, NOAA said.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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This path is for the organization that values neutrality and wants to manage all cloud providers as interchangeable resources.—
Serge Lucio,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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How to hard boil an egg Let’s start with the basics.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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In communities without clean water, families often burn wood to boil contaminated water, contributing to both deforestation and emissions.—
Sivan Yaari,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As street protests entered a second day, demonstrators set fire to the Supreme Court building, and smoke was seen pouring out of the country’s Parliament complex, The New York Times reported.—
Paige Bruton,
semafor.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Where there’s smoke, there might be fire.—
Bernie Pleskoff,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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From excellence and respectability to rage and raunch to the abstract and avant-garde.—
Lauren Morrow
September 9,
Literary Hub,
9 Sep. 2025
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Maybe this works fine — until that kid leaves home to go to college or work and ends up in an urgent care in the middle of the night with raging flu symptoms or a broken wrist.—
Dr. Jill Grimes,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In front of a packed crowd of surgeons, Morton asked Abbott to breathe in the fumes of a sweet-smelling liquid, known as ether, contained inside a small glass sphere.—
RJ Mackenzie,
Popular Science,
3 Sep. 2025
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The work catalogues minor and major mass contagions, from the seventeenth-century tulip mania in the Netherlands to the California telephone illness of 1984, in which eighty employees at a telephone operator facility suddenly fell ill after a coworker claimed to smell toxic fumes.—
Christy Lange,
Artforum,
1 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The wildfire has been burning on private land.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Jets also failed twice to convert on two-point conversions, once in the first half (Braelon Allen was stuffed) and again in the fourth quarter — after needlessly burning a timeout, Fields forced a throw to Wilson, surrounded by three defensive backs, in the back right corner of the end zone.—
Zack Rosenblatt,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Committee will pursue additional Epstein bank records based on this new information.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Sep. 2025
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau responds to complaints involving financial products and services including bank accounts, credit reports, and payments made or requested.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Steam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steam. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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