Thesaurus results for STEAMS

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verb

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

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noun

plural of steam

as in clouds

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Recent Examples of steams

Verb

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 Nothing steams football fans quite like NBC Sports broadcaster Cris Collinsworth praising Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2026 Then, Lim steams the breastmilk in an espresso machine before adding the matcha into the drink. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026 Humidity often corrodes cables and steams camera lenses. — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for steams

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So long as the conflict there rages, fueling inflation thanks to higher energy prices, that will further drive up yields, according to Adam Phillips, managing director of investments at EP Wealth Advisors.

— Sean Conlon, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026
Debate rages on about playoff formats and conference realignments.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of rages

Noun

Southwestern Minnesota will see a few more clouds, and could get clipped by a few showers in the early hours.

— Joseph Dames, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
This was promptly followed by rapidly moving ground-hugging clouds of blistering hot gas and rock fragments, a phenomenon called pyroclastic flow.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of clouds

Verb

The clip shows the moment of ignition of one of the spacecraft's six Raptor 3 engines, which burns for approximately 15 seconds.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
In Figments of Freedom, written, directed by and starring Webber, a Marine goes AWOL, burns his life to ash, and vanishes into America’s fractured heart.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of burns

Verb

Mars storms the Official Streaming chart with five titles, while one of his most successful collaborations becomes a bestseller again on multiple rosters.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Although significant, that event was far less powerful than the Carrington Event — or the even rarer storms the new study suggests may be possible.

— Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of storms

Verb

In the very human-scale role of Chef, all that glamour and pageantry seethes just beneath the skin.

— Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026
As Seth seethes about his separation from his home country (and the family fortune), Arias interweaves a backstory involving assassination, undisclosed parentage and (as the title suggests) the perilous creatures slithering across the landscape.

— Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026

Definition of seethes

Verb

As to whether Sassnitz shakes off its nicknames from last year, that partly depends on what happens this weekend.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
The Democratic Party on Saturday officially set its 2028 presidential primary calendar, shakes it up a bit, and puts six states now in the mix to be voting before March of 2028.

— CBS News, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026