steams 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of steam
as in rages
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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steams

2 of 2

noun

plural of steam

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Recent Examples of steams
Verb
As America steams headlong into November, working-class folks are still at loggerheads with its political class. — Jim Beaugez, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2026 In a crockery pot, my father steams cauliflower, stirring it round and round. — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026 The kitchen steams between 1,500 and 1,800 of three varieties every night at Adams Morgan’s 11-year-old Afghan hot spot. — Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026 The series left Netflix at the end of June (A Year in the Life remains available there) and currently steams on Hulu and Prime Video. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026 Lucien Laviscount enters the scene and steams it up as Hot Guy who fandangoes with Laila and then upends the apple cart later on. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 9 July 2026 During that time, the steak essentially steams. — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 15 May 2026 This all comes as the legal fight over the audit steams ahead, over 15 months after 72% of the state signed off on the ballot measure. — Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026 Mile End's Bohème Vintage stocks quality wool and denim, and steams them right behind the counter. — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steams
Verb
  • While that debate rages on, what is clear is Meta's own lab, which is now very much pumping out frontier-level models , isn't being valued anywhere near the levels of Anthropic and OpenAI.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
  • And as the war rages on some four years later, SpaceX’s terminals are once again making headlines.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 15 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Tall thunderstorm clouds will be affected by those changing winds and rotate.
    — Jamie Ross, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
  • For now, Monday still looks mainly dry across Dallas–Fort Worth, with a few more clouds and afternoon temperatures generally in the lower to middle 80s.
    — Michael Autovino, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • If the water gets too hot, well, the poor little froggy boils to death.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The second a Verizon worker mentions adding a screen protector, my blood boils.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The report authors also looked at how climate change could play out differently if the world burns more or fewer fossil fuels and puts in place stronger or weaker policies.
    — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Decades later, the fire lit by his first steed, a brown Schwinn Mag Scrambler, still burns bright.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Saturday, the system sent a long band of powerful thunder storms up the center of Georgia.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 10 Oct. 2026
  • So the group storms an elite gala in Greece hosted by vapid billionaire Ben Bracken (Vincent Cassel).
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Anyone who fumes at neighbors who don’t pick up after their dogs can identify with the surveillance-welcoming residents of Seine-Saint-Denis.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2023
Verb
  • The frustration that seethes through the show is often born of the disappointment that a form as quicksilver and astounding as songwriting can be yoked to small-minded and propagandistic ends.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Tom Rhys Harries seethes as Matt Hagen, a pretty boy who loses his looks only to regain them from an experimental procedure that makes a jumble of his psyche.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • When isolated issues in other states occur, even if proved untrue, the intense and repeated national media attention on them shakes voter confidence here at home.
    — Heather LaMarre, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Near the corner of Broad Street and Snyder Avenue in South Philadelphia, Shania Bennett shakes hands with a daycare owner.
    — Dan Snyder, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

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“Steams.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steams. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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