as in angry
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as in huffing
to talk loudly and wildly
when the waiter gave him incorrect change, he began ranting about the restaurant's poor service
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Recent Examples of ranting
Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
At another time, a perpetually anxious comedian who can’t keep from ranting about his paranoid worries about the end of the world probably would not feel like such a helpful guide to life.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
This guy is, apparently, in a room ranting about everything else.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2025
This guy is apparently in a room, ranting about everything else.
—NBC news, 30 Nov. 2025
The president began by ranting about CNN contributor April Ryan, who was, at the time, a White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
Cheung played a tape of Nicholson ranting and raving at the Kaiser facility in Irvine.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
An alienated professor takes up weight lifting and ranting in Jordan Castro’s perceptive new novel, Muscle Man.
—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Some of these people are ranting and raving, threatening violence against strangers or exhibiting tendencies to hurt themselves, others are quietly living in filth or unclothed or unshod in frigid temperatures.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
In two minutes of ranting and raving about his degenerate son’s twenty-six-thousand-dollar dinner bill, Reiner gave an indelible comedic performance destined to be quoted for years to come.
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Adjective
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Robby is angry at himself for not seeing it.—
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None of the referees appeared to be struck by the objects being thrown on the court, despite video showing a windfall of debris raining down from the angry crowd.—
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Through Blazy’s gaze, what looks outlandish is often revealed to be truer to itself than, for instance, the nearby tourist restaurants with candles burning down over beef bourguignon and accordions huffing in the corner.—
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Now, after Miami’s 34-10 win Sunday at the New York Jets, you are officially allowed to wonder aloud about wild-card playoff chances and be seen only as way optimistic rather than as a raving lunatic.—
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Kimmy Nguyen, a devoted fan of the Puerto Rican superstar, unveiled her intricate skeleton display on Instagram earlier this month, attracting hundreds of raving comments from like-minded admirers.—
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Translators are irate about the writing on the wall.—
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During the gas shortage of the late ‘1970s, the torch was extinguished temporarily to calm irate drivers who had to spend hours in gasoline lines and then drove by to see the torch burning freely.—
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And everyone is mad at Andrew—though this one feels like a rumor and more reality.—
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He’s been thrown straight into a mad month, in which Chelsea have Premier League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup and Champions League fixtures.—
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The real reason, unquestionably, is that Putin is indignant that Zelensky stood up to his bullying.—
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But what really kickstarts Ron’s detective brain again is the realization (thanks to some indignant words from a caller who otherwise limits himself to heavy breathing) that the conspiracy doesn’t end with Alice Quintana.—
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Things eventually come to a head back in Cairo, where local police arrest Roper and his team, only for the enraged buyers, who were defrauded due to Pine's intervention, to seize the convoy.—
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If not for the deeply funny asides and anecdotes from the book’s fictional characters, the reader would be left enraged and shaking.—
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Bondi Beach, Sydney — For Australia’s tiny Jewish population, Bondi Beach was a refuge within a vast country that offered sanctuary to families fleeing a seething hate that killed six million of their kind within the lifetime of some of their oldest members.—
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Stars are constant, writhing masses of vast convective bubbles rising to their seething surfaces.—
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“Ranting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranting. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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