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
Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2023
The violins indeed soared toward the sun, then veered into seething brass.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 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
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
The violins indeed soared toward the sun, then veered into seething brass.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 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
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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
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These materials, if ignited, can turn a small fire into a raging blaze within minutes.Kevin Gu, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Julia Roberts Julia Roberts reportedly owns a home in Malibu's Point Dume neighborhood, west of the raging flames.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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But before that, in a ground floor space that used to be an industrial kitchen, is Barney’s Water Cast 10 (2015), a large sculpture made by pouring molten bronze into a slurry of water and bentonite clay.Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Here, his Water Cast 10 is part modernist abstraction, part wasps’ nest, and part Chinese scholar’s rock made by a crew of people pouring molten copper into a combination of clay and water.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
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As for the empty seat at Margiela, the rumor mill has already been churning.Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
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The first weeks of December were supposed to be a triumph for Macron, a respite from the churning negativity of the political crisis.Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
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Davis’ white-hot event is celebrating its 50th anniversary.Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2024
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Combustible pundit Nancy Grace has long languished in YouTube irrelevancy, but her hyper-sensational show makes a fitting vehicle for this white-hot topic.Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2024
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The ‘blazing furnace’ The real estate mogul’s downfall was stunning for the gargantuan scale of the fraud, rattling a country which has long projected an image of authoritarian stability.Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
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With a blazing yet meticulous combination of action, setting, and performance, the astonishing dénouement is reminiscent of masterworks by D. W. Griffith. 20.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
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The wildfire ignited Monday and has expanded at an alarming rate, burning more than 3,000 acres with 0% containment and destroying at least seven structures.Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
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The Franklin fire is burning within much of the footprint of 2018’s devastating Woolsey fire, which destroyed more than 1,600 structures and burned about 97,000 acres in Malibu, the Santa Monica Mountains and surrounding communities of Thousand Oaks, Oak Park and Agoura Hills.Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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Listen to this article On a sweltering July day this past summer, straphangers trying to get home on the J train were left to sweat it out on the platform.Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 3 Nov. 2024
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On a sweltering summer day in 1935, Briony becomes entangled in a confusing series of events.Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Seething.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seething. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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