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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 seethed
When Burgess put both their names on the sign outside their Bridgeport, Connecticut, workshop, Fuller seethed.
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Bill Gourgey,
Popular Science,
29 Apr. 2026
Despite performing alongside the Sailors, Burney quietly seethed over the way Guzmán treated the band, and Fernández in particular.
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Longreads,
5 Mar. 2026
For the next several years, Hostetler seethed on the bench.
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Tim Rohan,
NBC news,
24 Jan. 2026
Sean Payton stood behind a lectern in a small room deep inside Levi’s Stadium back in August and seethed.
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Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2026
Mace seethed at the Ethics panel’s move.
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Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
20 Nov. 2025
His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
23 Oct. 2025
The result was a gonzo spaghetti Western that seethed with anti-colonialist sentiment and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
Many also seethed over the fact that some of these same teams had memorialized George Floyd, the Black man murdered on video by Derek Chauvin, then a Minneapolis police officer, in 2020, whose death set off a nationwide wave of street demonstrations.
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Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
16 Sep. 2025
Bill Gourgey,
Popular Science,
29 Apr. 2026
Despite performing alongside the Sailors, Burney quietly seethed over the way Guzmán treated the band, and Fernández in particular.
—
Longreads,
5 Mar. 2026
For the next several years, Hostetler seethed on the bench.
—
Tim Rohan,
NBC news,
24 Jan. 2026
Sean Payton stood behind a lectern in a small room deep inside Levi’s Stadium back in August and seethed.
—
Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2026
Mace seethed at the Ethics panel’s move.
—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
20 Nov. 2025
His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis.
—
News Desk,
Artforum,
23 Oct. 2025
The result was a gonzo spaghetti Western that seethed with anti-colonialist sentiment and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
Many also seethed over the fact that some of these same teams had memorialized George Floyd, the Black man murdered on video by Derek Chauvin, then a Minneapolis police officer, in 2020, whose death set off a nationwide wave of street demonstrations.
—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seethed
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Controversy swirled over the state’s election system after days passed without a result.
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The rumors swirled and commentators demanded to know if the couple was legit or not.
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Across the continent, schools closed, concerts were canceled, train lines were suspended and wildfires raged.
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Cameron came up with the idea during the pandemic, as protests over the murder of George Floyd spread across the country and wildfires raged across Northern California.
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Indianapolis and central Indiana was under a tornado watch until early June 18, as severe weather churned its way across the Midwest in two rounds of storms.
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Joe Picard perched atop a precarious mound of 300-plus-pound high-explosive shells as his ship churned toward Normandy’s beaches.
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The French capital is in the midst of a heat wave — the day of the show was the city’s hottest ever June day, until Wednesday eclipsed it — and the model’s toes steamed inside the oblong footwear.
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But don’t miss the crispy duck and walnut, and matsutake steamed chicken at the equally satisfying but more casual Yunnan specialty restaurant, Horizon.
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The savory dumplings can be boiled, sautéed, or topped with onions and sour cream for extra flavor.
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Potatoes that have been boiled, baked, or microwaved have less resistant starch than those that have been cooked and then chilled (as in potato salad).
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When Daemon stormed into his dining room to seize Harrenhal under Rhaenyra’s name, Ser Simon was super polite about the whole thing.
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The Young Lords, a group of Puerto Rican activists, stormed and occupied the Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York, for 12 hours.
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Dick took one look and whirled in mid-air.
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So Anikpo, a psychiatric physician assistant, didn't think to discuss the crackdown with their 9-year-old son Zeke, even as helicopters whirled over their South Minneapolis neighborhood.
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The wildfire had burned across an area of 30,000 acres by Sunday, information from the European Union’s Copernicus satellite mapping agency showed.
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When the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses on the lawn of other beach neighbors, the only Jewish family in town, my dad tracked down the local Klan leader and told him to back off, or else.
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