as in ranting
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as in drooling
to make an exaggerated display of affection or enthusiasm
she raved about the Mother's Day breakfast of cold coffee and burnt toast that her young children had proudly set before her
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as in huffing
to talk loudly and wildly
a man stood outside city hall raving like a lunatic about his tax bill
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Recent Examples of raving
Walaa Elsiddig, Billboard, 13 July 2022
In the video, De Laurentiis mixed up the drink, which mixes balsamic vinegar and sparkling water, and gave a raving review.
—Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2022
One-off tweets are still a lot of fun, but building a community of raving fans is where Twitter really shines.
—Evan William Kirstel, Forbes, 17 May 2022
The album was released in May 2020 and received raving reviews, and has been streamed 1 Billion times globally to date.
—Izzy Colón, SPIN, 30 Mar. 2022
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Unbeknownst that the emerging artist was working amongst them, the raving crowd of partygoers danced in excitement as the DJ shouted her out.
—Walaa Elsiddig, Billboard, 13 July 2022
In the video, De Laurentiis mixed up the drink, which mixes balsamic vinegar and sparkling water, and gave a raving review.
—Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2022
One-off tweets are still a lot of fun, but building a community of raving fans is where Twitter really shines.
—Evan William Kirstel, Forbes, 17 May 2022
The album was released in May 2020 and received raving reviews, and has been streamed 1 Billion times globally to date.
—Izzy Colón, SPIN, 30 Mar. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raving
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Waves of immigration have sparked an angry ethno-nationalism that advantages ideological extremes.Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 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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Last week, Fox premiered the new comedy Going Dutch, about a ranting conservative father (Denis Leary) forced to reconnect with his estranged liberal daughter (Taylor Misiak).Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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The Pats addressed two of their biggest needs, but instead in Tuesday’s paper there’s me, smiling in my headshot and ranting in print, a clueless dope.Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 12 Mar. 2024
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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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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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While residents had been protesting the order to vacate since it was issued in November, the tenor of their demonstrations, and the rhetoric surrounding the government’s response, took on a darker, more indignant tone in early December, following the arrest of Vivian Hernandez.Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2025
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And no other post-World War II president faced a powerful Asian adversary like today’s China: large, resourceful, indignant, and determined to claim the central regional position.Michael J. Green, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2022
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The more irate the customer seems to be, the more the AI tends to appease the person (well, to clarify, the AI said-to-be placation has been shaped or programmed this way).Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Who knows who’s carrying a gun and might get irate when someone else blocks the screen or answers a cell phone during a movie showing.Diane Gensler, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2025
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In the premiere of the most recent season of Sesame Street, innocent conversations among residents of 123 Sesame Street keep being interrupted by a typically confused and apoplectic Grover.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024
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However, as a cold-blooded capitalist, Scrooge would be rendered apoplectic by the concentrated retails assaults of the different stores to separate the yuletide revelers from their money.Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
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But anyone who knows Fox News knows there are rabid fans of Fox News out there.Dade Hayes, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2025
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If that wasn't ridiculous enough, the following internet pile-on was so rabid Bieber reached out to Gomez to ask her fans to stop sending her death threats.Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2024
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This helps explain why Gabbard elicits a seething hatred from people like Frum, Clinton, and Nichols.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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The posts linked a global network of agitators who have seized on the influx of migrants seeking political asylum or economic opportunity to build seething followings online.Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2024
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“Raving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raving. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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