as in boiling
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as in raging
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
she seethed at the very thought of the staff's staggering incompetence
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Recent Examples of seething
Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
While there was a seething fury, reckless abandon, and dark humor present in their work, there was also sincerity, earnestness, and focused artistic ambition.
—Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2023
Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
The work begins with soft, airy slipping, the sense of something quietly seething and forming.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
The play examines what happens when seething anger is turned inward, as well as the desire for reconciliation.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
While there was a seething fury, reckless abandon, and dark humor present in their work, there was also sincerity, earnestness, and focused artistic ambition.
—Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2023
Verb
The usually calm German was clearly seething in a short interview with DAZN Espana following the full-time whistle on Saturday night.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
The work begins with soft, airy slipping, the sense of something quietly seething and forming.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seething
Adjective
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One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Scientific American,
3 Mar. 2020
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If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Dec. 2019
Verb
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Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water.—
Travis Loller,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.—
Interesting Engineering,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The core, which is made up of molten iron, generates electrical currents.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
16 Apr. 2025
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Recent research, however, has proposed a promising answer: the molten Martian core likely generated a magnetic field that only covered the Red Planet’s southern hemisphere.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
16 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Bateman is in the midst of churning a career-high output of 654 total yards and seven touchdowns in 14 games so far.—
Gord Magill,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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Instead, its vivid, expressive prose also explores how aesthetic beauty can cover stomach-churning abuse, while Lin’s rich literary allusions reveal her sensitivity to language and her critical interest in developing a Taiwanese cultural heritage.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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But the white-hot rage of the MAGA base can’t be comfortable to bear.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
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Silicon Valley’s white-hot tech economy pushed up housing costs.—
Christian Babcock,
The Mercury News,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Still today, stepping off the blazing L.A. sidewalks into the cool, rustic Gjelina interior feels like putting on a pair of full-body sunglasses.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2025
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In a scene destined to be replayed any time Pascal’s name is batted about awards circles, Joel’s eyes become a blazing window to his soul.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The company built a retail and residential complex around the county’s Coconut Grove Metrorail station, and Martin also is pitching an incinerator site in western Miami-Dade as an alternative to the Levine Cava plan to rebuild the trash-burning facility in Doral.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
4 Jan. 2025
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That same year, the Legislature appropriated $180 million that the Air Resources Board could use to fund alternatives to burning.—
Rebecca Plevin,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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On the sweltering night of Aug. 22, 2022, Hollis is plunked down on a seat outside the back door of the station near Daniel Taveras, who was popped driving into his own neighborhood.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Jan. 2025
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During a sweltering week in March 1906, American soldiers ascended Bud Dajo, a 2,000-foot volcano on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Seething.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seething. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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