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as in to steam
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
he silently fumed as his ex-girlfriend danced with her new beau
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as in to storm
to express one's anger usually violently
when she found out her driver's license was being suspended, she fumed, throwing papers across the room and shouting at the top of her lungs
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Recent Examples of fume
Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Travis Hunter went from celebrating acrobatic catches in the end zone against North Dakota State to fuming in Lincoln.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2024
Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2024
The cause of death given was inhalation of fire fumes.
—Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
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By August, students and faculty of the North Carolina college UNC Greensboro were still fuming from cuts to academic programs.
—Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Travis Hunter went from celebrating acrobatic catches in the end zone against North Dakota State to fuming in Lincoln.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2024
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However, the toxic gas known as carbon monoxide (CO) is found in the fumes produced by these devices.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2024
The cause of death given was inhalation of fire fumes.
—Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
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Swiss National Bank Switzerland’s central bank has been steaming ahead with its rate cuts, last week surpassing expectations with a bumper 50-basis-point reduction, taking its main rate to 0.5%.Dylan Butts,Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
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Netflix has been routinely steaming hundreds of millions of hours of on-demand video each month to 283 million subscribers in more than 190 countries.David Bloom, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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In 1979, Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days.Noah Eckstein, Variety, 29 Dec. 2024
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Shesterkin stormed to the dressing room for a few minutes after Quick came in the game then returned to the bench later in the second period.Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
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Some priests appeared to pretend to not notice as Santería followers blew cigar smoke onto statues of St. Lazarus, who is represented walking on crutches and wearing a sack cloth.Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
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The vehicle had heavy damage to the front end and passenger side, a deflated right front tire and thick smoke coming from underneath the hood, according to police.Staff report, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
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To the north, fierce urban battles are raging in Chasiv Yar and Toretsk, towns that have long stood as the barricades holding back direct Russian assaults on the agglomeration of the major cities at the heart of the Donetsk region.Marc Santora, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Inflation, pre-Volcker, raged simultaneously with recession, something liberal economists said could not happen.The Editors, National Review, 29 Dec. 2024
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The most poignant of these inclusions is the pairing of three cloud studies in oil on paper by John Constable from the early 1820s with four watercolor cloud studies by Luke Howard, a British chemist who in 1803 first proposed a Latinate classification for clouds, a system still in use today.Red Cameron, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
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It’s been that kind of a rookie season for the first overall pick, putting him under the same kind of cloud that seemed to always hang over his predecessor, Justin Fields.Phil Rogers, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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The pair, who met as college undergrads, both burned with idealism and recognized their privilege could be leveraged for a game-changing idea.Carole Horst, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation promotes circular fashion and says that, in the United States, an amount of clothing equal to a garbage truck is ferried to landfills or burned every second.Neeti Mehra, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
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Ando’s residential commissions in Southern California have lately been shrouded in a miasma of boldface celebrity real estate gossip.Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 5 Dec. 2024
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Why, then, go through the miasma that has changed the entire character of the city?John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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It’s also made with glycerin, which helps pull moisture into the skin, and won’t foam up (to keep your skin barrier intact).Jordan Galloway, SELF, 12 Dec. 2024
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On Tuesday night, the city of Grand Prairie announced the detection of a foaming agent in the water north of I-20.Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Fume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fume. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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