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Clara Ludmir, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
His son Miles, who was living with Gillespie during the frenzy, was a GameStop investor.
—Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
The name alone is enough to send most people into a shopping frenzy.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
Find it on Amazon Hurry, These Popular Cleaners Are Selling Fast
Join the TikTok frenzy with this little machine, a viral sensation that effectively removes grime from various surfaces.
—Poppy Morgan, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
The past few years were a frenzy of buying and building.
—Julie Satow, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
The four women’s solid performance engulfed the historic venue in a frenzy of excitement.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2023
On Mommy Duty Even in the midst of the frenzy of a football match in Miami, she was captured totally tuned in with her baby boy, who was only three months at the time the photo was taken.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 10 Nov. 2023
The article that set off a frenzy of speculation and anticipation was retracted by Nature on Tuesday after months of rising doubts about its claims and Dias, its lead author.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
Wall Street Journal Five Guys frenzy There are grand openings, and then there's the launch of Five Guys in South Korea.
—Alan Murray, Fortune, 30 June 2023
Long before the globetrotting tours, the tabloid headlines, the Beatlesque frenzy that’s driving desperate parents to spend $12,000 for concert tickets, Taylor Swift got a crucial career break in a Livonia parking lot.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2023
The 10-piece band's high energy, coupled with the soulful vocals and electric performance of its frontman, known as Black Wolf, frenzied the audience, keeping them on their feet and wanting more.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
This has been a frenzied 72 hours for the Indianapolis Colts, a franchise that doesn’t do frenzy.
—The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2023
Allow us to breakdown why these tumblers, of all the Starbucks tumblers, seem to frenzy customers the most: First, each tumbler comes in one color but turns into another when exposed to cold liquids.
—Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 27 May 2020
Together, the percussion and brass became springboards for a buildup to frenzy.
—Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
Because that conflict remains unresolved in the story, Jones often declines to resolve it in movement; numbers build from tension to frenzy without the overfamiliar Broadway-style climax.
—New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
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Word History
Noun
Middle English frenesie, franesie, frensy, fransy "insanity, delirium, fit of madness," borrowed from Anglo-French frenesie, frensye, borrowed from Medieval Latin phrenēsia, re-formation of Late Latin phrenēsis "inflammation of the brain, madness," derivative (by analogy with other Greek nouns in -ēsis with corresponding adjectives in -ētikos) of Latin phrenēticus "suffering from madness" — more at frenetic
Verb
derivative of frenzy entry 1
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1791, in the meaning defined above
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“Frenzy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frenzy. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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