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as in to rage
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 seethe
Stars are constant, writhing masses of vast convective bubbles rising to their seething surfaces.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Nov. 2025
Mace seethed at the Ethics panel’s move.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2025
After the gold nuclei crashed, the protons and neutrons within them melted into a seething cloud of quark-gluon plasma.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2025
The Clash in 1983 were definitely in that category, as Strummer and Simonon kept seething at Jones’ prima-donna airs.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025
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Controversy has swirled since Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn and other officials announced before the new year that the city has entered into a three-year contract agreement with Cataldo Ambulance Service, breaking course from Armstrong.—
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Despite OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora services capturing an increasing amount of consumer engagement and concerns swirling around the future of online advertising in a world of AI chatbots and agents, Alphabet has managed to ward off fears that its most innovative days are in the past.—
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When the sun goes down, three beams of light will illuminate the sky over the town that was, piercing the darkness that this time last year was lit with the unholy glow of a fire raging, with no end in sight.—
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That winter, the concrete spillway collapsed in one section during massive storms, prompting the evacuation of 188,000 people as water raged uncontrolled into the river below, and concerns grew that part of the dam might fail.—
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There are maquiladoras throughout the border town — factories where an endless, churning supply of workers builds auto parts and computers.—
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The standout craft element here is a powerful horror score by Hildur Gudnadottir that ranges from solemn, quasi-ecclesiastical passages to gut-churning, droning soundscapes.—
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Some other unconventional methods include steaming the fabric to soften the threads and then stretch, as well as wetting the garment and then pining it down at the correct size, like how crocheters stretch out granny squares.—
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Our Test Kitchen used a thin, 12-inch cast-iron skillet and the high heat transferred well in this pan and allowed for some charring, but also steaming due to the high volume.—
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Its carbon steel boils water quickly, while retaining heat.—
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Distilled water is water that has been boiled, causing the water molecules to return to a gaseous state and then condense back into liquid.—
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Supervisor Kathryn Barger's office, which represents the Eaton Fire burn scar communities, said she has been briefed by the EPA on the soil testing efforts.—
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The fires started just hours apart and burned for a month, killing 31 people and destroying more than 16,000 buildings across the county.—
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Gird your loins for potential shockwaves from logistical cyberattacks, crumbling critical infrastructure, even more extreme weather disasters and, most of all, intense geopolitical fragmentation that will further roil trade relationships, warned Everstream Analytics.—
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But that move is now widely understood to have contributed to the double-digit inflation that roiled the country during the ’70s and ended only after a new Fed chair raised interest rates high enough to trigger a recession.—
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Seattle stormed back to tie it in the third, any notion that the Wild were going to be happy with a road point was quickly dispelled.—
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The Stars have now lost six straight games (0-3-3) after getting battered Tuesday night by those same Hurricanes that Colorado stormed back against three days prior.—
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“Seethe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seethe. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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