road rage

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Recent Examples of road rage One man was killed and two others were wounded Thursday night in a road rage shooting in South Dallas, police say. Jamie Landers, Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026 The man said he was involved in what appeared to be a road rage incident while headed south when the other driver fired a shot from their driver side window, police said. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026 Among them were the one believed used in the road rage incident as well as a pistol reported stolen out of Santa Rosa, an assault rife, a sawed off shotgun and other firearms, authorities said. Harry Harris, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026 From 2021 to 2025, the number of road rage calls into 911 Dispatch rose 24%, increasing each year. Rose Evans updated March 3, Idaho Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for road rage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for road rage
Noun
  • But tackling air rage requires more than just slogans.
    Milad Haghani, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
  • Airlines have had plenty of warnings, from the drunken passenger who defecated on a meal cart to the epidemic of air rage during the pandemic.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • While queen-size mattresses are the most popular choice for couples, this size is also good for single adults or adults with pets.
    Sharon Brandwein, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • This heinous incident appears to be a deliberate act intended to punish the victim by exploiting her love for her pet.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Some researchers believe ancient peoples sought relief from heat in the caves, which were fed by fresh underground water.
    Ryan Brennan April 4, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The telescope, known as the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, will detect infrared light or heat being emitted by elusive asteroids and comets.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Angelika Warmuth | Reuters Gold prices climbed on Wednesday as declining oil prices helped temper worries about persistent inflation, following reports that Washington is working on a proposal to end the Middle East conflict.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But Thune and Graham both attempted to temper expectations in discussing its possible scope on Tuesday.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The cast’s sole survivor is Jessica Hecht, who pours miraculous warmth and complexity into her faintly insulting role as Colleen, the head teller, a morally upright spinster goosed by her flirtation with Sonny and the spotlight.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Despite the grandeur of the place, there is an ease and warmth to the space.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In You Dreamed of Empires (2024), the emperor Moctezuma stalks his palace in 1519 Tenochtitlan—today’s Mexico City—in a fog of psychedelic-induced delirium, glammed-out like an Aztec David Bowie.
    Anderson Tepper, Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But instead of treating those rooms as back of house, OMA packed them into the peak of a short skyscraper, elevating them into sunlit incubators of deliberate delirium poised above the everyday.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise in gasoline prices here at home.
    James Powel, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • That vision of worldwide economic and cultural interdependence that enabled the proliferation of biennials in the ’90s has been steadily eroding amid the recent rise in nativism and far-right movements in the United States and Europe.
    Smooth Nzewi, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026

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“Road rage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/road%20rage. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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