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
Ron Charles, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
Wack brings a seething force to his portrayal of writer-activist Ned Weeks, who’s based on Kramer himself.
—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
Matt Thompson, SPIN, 18 Oct. 2024
We're used to seething resentments and bizarre claims, boasts and lies.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
How unsettling to venture into this futuristic story only to end up back here in the seething realm of present-day America.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
Wack brings a seething force to his portrayal of writer-activist Ned Weeks, who’s based on Kramer himself.
—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
Verb
And proceedings are very eye-able—packed to seething capacity with all manner of glammed-out costumery, cosplay, and punk fashion.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 18 Oct. 2024
We're used to seething resentments and bizarre claims, boasts and lies.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024
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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.Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
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If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
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The bright orange-and-red water spouts off the cliff with the visual intensity of a raging forest fire.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Han has kept a low profile following the win, reportedly refusing a celebration her father planned, citing the wars still raging in Gaza and Ukraine.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
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Currents of molten lava rose and collapsed like thick tongues of muddy ocean water, making a concussive sloshing sound that snapped and boomed.Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
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Train derailment in Kentucky forced evacuation for molten sulfur spill In November 2023, a CSX train derailed in Eastern Kentucky, spilling molten sulfur and forcing the evacuation of a nearby small town over air quality concerns, NBC News reported.Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
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Also churning in the Atlantic basin is Hurricane Kirk as well as a tropical wave south of the Cabo Verde Islands.John Bacon, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
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The subgenre originated in the late ’80s as bands such as My Bloody Valentine blanketed concert venues in slow-churning guitar squall while staring down at their effects pedals.Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
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When they are dropped, white-hot metal fragments can fly out in all directions, tearing through their surroundings.Allegra Goodwin and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
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The white-hot rivalry between the Dodgers and Yankees extends far beyond the white lines of their respective ballparks.Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Nikola Jokic is off to another blazing start to the season and the reigning MVP figures to once again push for that title.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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For three blazing years straddling the 1960s and ’70s, Creedence Clearwater Revival was one of the most commercially successful acts in rock.Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 July 2024
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But in July, the local agencies received word from the Forest Service that contractors could no longer provide aerial supervision over fires burning on federal land.Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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The methane-burning BE-4s, each one generating 550,000 pounds of thrust, continued boosting the rocket out of the lower atmosphere for another three minutes or so before shutting down.William Harwood, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
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On a sweltering summer day in 1935, Briony becomes entangled in a confusing series of events.Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
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It was meant to be a typical sweltering August day in Georgia for the Fearless Fund.Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Seething.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seething. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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