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
Chris Cannon, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
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
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
Terrorism is a generational and self-sustaining beast, fed by the doctrine of managing crises instead of solving them, letting seething resentments fester with no eye toward protecting the generation to come.
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The usually calm German was clearly seething in a short interview with DAZN Espana following the full-time whistle on Saturday night.
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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.—
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If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.—
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Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water.—
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Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.—
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Axial Seamount formed on what’s known as a hot spot, where plumes of molten rock rise from Earth’s mantle into the crust.—
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But a lot of lunar crystals seem to have formed from a second reservoir of molten rock 4.35 billion years ago.—
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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.—
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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.—
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This year’s guest list highlighted a healthy contingent of first-time attendees, expanding the who’s who of the night to include a variety of A-list athletes and Bollywood stars, as well as the castmembers of The White Lotus‘ white-hot third season.—
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Jin’s crescendo of bitterness had reached its peak and found a white-hot fury.—
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Pickett was seldomly penalized last season and didn’t give up many deep pass plays despite not having blazing recovery speed (4.59-second 40 at his pro day).—
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The play in question came in the sixth inning when the blazing Chandler Simpson hit a soft grounder to Paul Goldschmidt at first.—
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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.—
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Most feature a king-size bed, wood-burning stove, plenty of knotty wood furniture, and fresh white linens.—
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For an extra hydration kick on sweltering days, blended cucumber makes a refreshing addition, packing in more electrolytes for maximum summer relief.—
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In Phnom Penh’s hot season, when the Cambodian capital’s sweltering, subtropical air routinely soars to 100 degrees, more workers than usual visited the infirmaries inside a factory that made baby clothes for Nike, the world’s largest athletic apparel brand.—
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“Seething.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seething. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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