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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Recent Examples of 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.
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Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
Mile End's Bohème Vintage stocks quality wool and denim, and steams them right behind the counter.
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Charlie Hobbs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Mar. 2026
Nothing steams football fans quite like NBC Sports broadcaster Cris Collinsworth praising Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
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Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
6 Feb. 2026
Then, Lim steams the breastmilk in an espresso machine before adding the matcha into the drink.
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Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
15 Jan. 2026
Humidity often corrodes cables and steams camera lenses.
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IEEE Spectrum,
3 Nov. 2025
The clip then smash-cuts to a scene of Bruce as a child listening to his parents fight in the next room, and we’re meant to understand that the joy and power that steams off of the stage is a cure for the pain of childhood wounds.
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Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
But Frazier’s steams the Martin Potato Buns that hold their tiny smashburgers, disappeared by cheese and dressed with pickles, onions, ketchup and mustard (don’t see that very often off the rack).
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Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
During that time, the steak essentially steams.
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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
The clip then smash-cuts to a scene of Bruce as a child listening to his parents fight in the next room, and we’re meant to understand that the joy and power that steams off of the stage is a cure for the pain of childhood wounds.
—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
But Frazier’s steams the Martin Potato Buns that hold their tiny smashburgers, disappeared by cheese and dressed with pickles, onions, ketchup and mustard (don’t see that very often off the rack).
—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steams
Verb
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Molloy rages to his film crew, and Lestat’s duplicity plants a wedge between the vamps.
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Halfway through 2026 and the Beckham family feud still rages on.
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Watch for clouds passing by Friday morning through the early afternoon — that is a cold front that marks the arrival of our cooler weekend.
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During the final launch sequence in the film, the room fills with water vapor simulating clouds and fog from the launch.
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Also contaminated are fish, staples of Midwestern fish fries and fish boils, and an important part of the diet of Indigenous tribes, certain immigrant populations and communities of color.
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Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture boils.
Verb
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Kishnani’s now 48 but the exclusion still burns.
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Destined only to be savoured as a dream, while the world still burns around you.
Verb
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Greater Cincinnati may be pelted with severs storms overnight as much of the Midwest is set to experience an abnormal mid-June system, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
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Gary ultimately storms off, but Duncan appreciates the insult, suggesting that Silicon Valley's venture capitalists love sociopaths.
Verb
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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.
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Trump seethes with hatred and erupts in volcanic fury to denounce, demonize, disparage and threaten anyone who refuses to support his increasingly irrational and harmful proposals and actions.
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And the employee shakes their head and the manager feels really positive.
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And Philip told me that someone shakes his hand.
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“Steams.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steams. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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