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as in to steam
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
he silently fumed as his ex-girlfriend danced with her new beau
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as in to storm
to express one's anger usually violently
when she found out her driver's license was being suspended, she fumed, throwing papers across the room and shouting at the top of her lungs
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Recent Examples of fume
Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2024
And so, on July 4, 2004, with dignitaries in attendance and Silverstein fuming, a 20-ton block of polished Adirondack granite was craned into place — before later being trucked away for storage.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2024
Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
Not long ago, their fumes polluted the air on both sides of the river, but now the mine is closed.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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Verb
Travis Hunter went from celebrating acrobatic catches in the end zone against North Dakota State to fuming in Lincoln.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2024
And so, on July 4, 2004, with dignitaries in attendance and Silverstein fuming, a 20-ton block of polished Adirondack granite was craned into place — before later being trucked away for storage.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2024
Noun
The cause of death given was inhalation of fire fumes.
—Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
Not long ago, their fumes polluted the air on both sides of the river, but now the mine is closed.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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Combining over 15 advanced cooking functions—from slow cooking, steaming, and chopping to kneading, frying, and sous-vide cooking—this device simplifies meal preparation without compromising quality.New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Dec. 2024
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This one is small enough to pack in a suitcase, and for steaming a few of his cotton shirts at a time.Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2024
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On the chart dated March 18, 2023, One Thing stormed atop both the all-genre Billboard 200 as well as Top Country Albums with a whopping 501,000 equivalent album units earned in its first week.Jim Asker, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2024
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The plate seems to reference Oct. 7, when Hamas militants stormed into Israel, killing about 1,200 people and kidnapping about 250.Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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This torch is strong, which helps push the smoke down.Andrew Watman, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
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Outdoor air is often suffused with formaldehyde gas from cars, smoke, factories, and oil and gas extraction, sometimes at worrying levels that are predicted to worsen with climate change.Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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The Franklin Fire started raging through the coastal California town on Monday, growing to nearly 4,000 acres by Wednesday afternoon.Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
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Her son left the family home in Hasaka in northern Syria in 2013 during one of the many escalations of the war which had at that point been raging for more than two years.Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
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The open cluster Westerlund 1 is located roughly 12,000 light-years away, residing behind a huge interstellar cloud of gas and dust.Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2024
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Tips on how to view astronomical events: The best conditions to see the night sky will be with clear skies without clouds or haze.Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
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The pair, who met as college undergrads, both burned with idealism and recognized their privilege could be leveraged for a game-changing idea.Carole Horst, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation promotes circular fashion and says that, in the United States, an amount of clothing equal to a garbage truck is ferried to landfills or burned every second.Neeti Mehra, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
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Ando’s residential commissions in Southern California have lately been shrouded in a miasma of boldface celebrity real estate gossip.Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 5 Dec. 2024
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Why, then, go through the miasma that has changed the entire character of the city?John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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On Tuesday night, the city of Grand Prairie announced the detection of a foaming agent in the water north of I-20.Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Sep. 2024
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According to Mayor Ron Jensen, fire crews responded to a warehouse fire on S Avenue around 1 p.m. on Tuesday and utilized a foaming agent to extinguish the flames.Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Fume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fume. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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