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seething

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verb

present participle of seethe
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as in swirling
to be in a state of violent rolling motion the water seethed with schools of feeding piranha

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Recent Examples of seething
Adjective
These are hard data outcroppings from a seething sea of online hate. David Frum, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026 There is no doubt in my mind, however, that Dubas is absolutely seething. Josh Yohe, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Verb
Her Catherine is less defined by the quirky, appealing eccentricities of Mary-Louise Parker’s performance in the original 2000 Broadway staging, but is girded by a certain angry resignation, fearful of what life might have in store, furious too, yet seething with a will to defy it all. Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026 So Isaac and Mulligan have done seething resentment before in the most watchable way. Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seething
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seething
Adjective
  • More humane methods of killing lobsters pre-boiling include a sharp knife through the head, electrical stunning, or freezing.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius) — as a potential hospitable environment for life.
    Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And across the almost-year since, speculation has been swirling.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 1 July 2026
  • The American great had just lost to France’s Harmony Tan in the first round of the grass court major and questions about her future were swirling around this leafy corner of London.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the jet stream — following the arc around the heat dome — is carrying wildfire smoke up north to Minnesota and the Upper Midwest from raging wildfires in Utah, Arizona and Colorado.
    Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
  • That's the word from fire officials across the nation during the heart of fireworks season, and especially out west, where wildfires are raging.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Adjective
  • Workers feed iron ore, coal and limestone into the furnaces’ top and use long sticks to punch open holes for purified molten iron to flow out from the bottom.
    John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • The region’s glassmakers are known for their technical precision, decorative skill and ability to turn molten glass into objects of remarkable delicacy.
    Lea Lane, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • Ray continued his reinvention into a two-seam fastball pitcher, churning efficient contact outs and taking a shutout into the eighth inning before allowing an unearned run.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • With more shaking or churning, these grains grow and separate from the watery, naturally low-fat buttermilk.
    Rosemary Trout, Scientific American, 27 June 2026
Verb
  • Reduce heat to low and cook (milk should be steaming or just barely simmering around edges of pan) 10 minutes.
    Joe Sevier, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • Marylanders settled back for a steaming celebration of America’s 194th birthday today.
    Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2026
Adjective
  • In a sizzling dissent for the court's three liberals, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson castigated the majority for diminishing not just individual religious rights, but the power of Congress to legislate.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 23 June 2026
  • The sizzling heat will stick around through the weekend with high temperatures in the low 90s.
    Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • For much of the past week, all that Colombia had been able to agree upon was the pre-eminence of Luis Diaz, who remained a whirling dervish throughout the match as his side’s outstanding player.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • That’s the question that has been whirling around Hollywood since the news broke that Amazon MGM Studios was dropping the feature just months after Amazon entered into a $50 billion investment with Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
    Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2026

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