as in angry
feeling or showing anger the big increase in cable rates prompted a flood of irate calls and letters

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Recent Examples of irate Los Angeles Dodgers fans were irate when right fielder Mookie Betts nearly lost his glove — and risked injury — at the hands of two New York Yankees fans who fought with him over a fly ball in the World Series. David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024 That strain was captured in irate social media posts with images of snorkelers continuing their vacation as the ruins of Lahaina smoldered. Ely Brown, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2024 Jaiswal dropped a trio of catches, which did prove costly for India, on day four with a visibly irate Rohit gesticulating wildly as his emotions bubbled over. Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 Tensions are already running high in this town due to water shortages (as a radio announcement informs), and the knowledge that a predator is roaming around adds fuel to the fire with irate local men trying to find the culprit on their own. Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for irate 
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Adjective
  • The return of Donald Trump is readily evident today with reporters once again waking up to an angry presidential social media post, this time over a moment that went viral.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Trump refused to accept Biden's victory in the 2020 election and his animosity toward Biden culminated in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, during which mobs of angry Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol after Trump urged them to stop Congress from certifying Biden's electoral victory.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Gabriela Cowperthwaite Twitter aside, there’s no better way to get indignant in a short amount of time than by watching Blackfish, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s documentary look into the world of captive killer whales.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • If Wired of the 2010s was the cheerful herald of a shiny, happy future (not a judgment!), this piece is its indignant child, pointing accusingly at the mess.
    Longreads, Longreads, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • He's also issued executive orders at a furious pace on a host of issues.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • On Tuesday The Athletic reported how Amorim, 39, delivered a furious critique to his team after losing 3-1 at home to Brighton, with the TV used for tactical analysis caught as collateral.
    Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
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  • The slow-burn setup (even despite punctuations of mad violence) all leads to the requisite gala centerpiece, where the quote-unquote new and improved Elvira is revealed to her potential Prince.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The fires that tore through Altadena and Pacific Palisades have created a mad rush for a place to live, as thousands of newly homeless families enter what was already a housing market in crisis.
    Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Over 70 missiles, including ballistic ones, and more than a hundred attack drones.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
  • More than 70 missiles, including ballistic ones, and more than a hundred strike drones.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 25 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The two initiatives appeared to both panic and infuriate Kagame, who viewed them as part of a joint attempt by Tshisekedi and Museveni to sideline him economically and strategically.
    Michela Wrong, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023

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“Irate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irate. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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