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as in agitated
feeling overwhelming fear or worry
the frantic parents were searching all over the fairgrounds for their lost child
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as in furious
marked by great and often stressful excitement or activity
the holiday season seems to be moving along at a frantic pace
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Recent Examples of frantic
If Payton discounted the frantic final frame, though, his 29-year-old quarterbacks coach politely disagreed.
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Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 10 Jan. 2025
Thousands more trembled at home waiting for direction, frantic and afraid.
—Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
The Asian Film Awards will kick off a month of frantic film activity in Hong Kong.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
Brodin, who blocked shots by Robert Thomas and a scorcher by Colton Parayko during that frantic two-plus-minute shift preserving a one-goal lead in the St. Louis game, was out with a lower-body injury.
—Michael Russo, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 10 Jan. 2025
Thousands more trembled at home waiting for direction, frantic and afraid.
—Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
The Asian Film Awards will kick off a month of frantic film activity in Hong Kong.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
Brodin, who blocked shots by Robert Thomas and a scorcher by Colton Parayko during that frantic two-plus-minute shift preserving a one-goal lead in the St. Louis game, was out with a lower-body injury.
—Michael Russo, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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That’s why, in the final minutes of the team’s home finale last month, agitated fans at Soldier Field serenaded McCaskey and his family with an impassioned request.Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025
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In the middle of the party, an accordion player jigged among a group of young, unsteady revelers, rapping to the beat like an agitated auctioneer.Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025
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Senate Democrats are furious that President-elect Trump has reached out to conservative Justice Samuel Alito amid a push by Trump for the high court to halt his criminal sentencing.Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2025
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In a furious assault that began Tuesday morning and continued into Wednesday night, a wind-and-wildfire monster attacked a metropolis of 4,753 square miles and nearly 10 million people, whipping up flames that tore through communities of every socioeconomic status and stripe.Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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The video also captures a distraught women yelling into her cellphone, apparently devastated by the destruction.Tara Prindiville, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
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There’s also a troubling recurrent theme of angry, violent, and/or distraught mothers, who we are asked to watch suffer or inflict suffering on others time and time again.Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2025
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Everton had many mad weeks under former owner Farhad Moshiri, but this one has rivalled them.Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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The elaborate choreography and colorful vision match Vincente Minnelli’s style but underneath carry a delirious energy equal to Ken Russell’s maddest visions of neurotic excess.Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2025
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Lyft’s challenges were compounded by fierce rivalry with Uber (NYSE: UBER) and the disruptive impact of the pandemic.Trefis Team, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Tariffs Don't Have to Make Economic Sense to Appeal to Trump Voters The debates over tariffs were fierce.Einav Rabinovitch-Fox / Made by History, TIME, 7 Jan. 2025
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Few folks are worried about how the yard looks, but Travis Hogan has a keen interest in green grass in January.Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Jan. 2025
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But the more time Zuckerberg spends in Mar-a-Lago, the more Sam Altman and Tim Cook should be worried.Alex Heath, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2025
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In 2021, a storm killed over 240 people and left millions of residents without power sparking intense backlash for ERCOT.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Flames were pushed by intense wind gusts that officials had warned could fuel any spark into a fast-moving and erratic wildfire.Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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For the 34th time in two years cops have been called by frightened neighbors or Hollis herself to quell the volcanic quarrels inside Peppermill Apartments unit B-312.Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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My friends were confused by my abrupt stop and the frightened and befuddled look on my face — except for one, whose eyes were also bulging wide.Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Frantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frantic. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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