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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 seething
Josh Yohe, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Bondi Beach, Sydney — For Australia’s tiny Jewish population, Bondi Beach was a refuge within a vast country that offered sanctuary to families fleeing a seething hate that killed six million of their kind within the lifetime of some of their oldest members.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025
Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
The Hill’s Mike Lillis and Sudiksha Kochi report hard-line House conservatives are seething after Johnson reversed course to support the Senate plan after initially opposing it.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
There is no doubt in my mind, however, that Dubas is absolutely seething.
—Josh Yohe, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Bondi Beach, Sydney — For Australia’s tiny Jewish population, Bondi Beach was a refuge within a vast country that offered sanctuary to families fleeing a seething hate that killed six million of their kind within the lifetime of some of their oldest members.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025
Verb
The footnotes are seething with granularity.
—Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
The Hill’s Mike Lillis and Sudiksha Kochi report hard-line House conservatives are seething after Johnson reversed course to support the Senate plan after initially opposing it.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seething
Adjective
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More humane methods of killing lobsters pre-boiling include a sharp knife through the head, electrical stunning, or freezing.—
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29 Dec. 2025
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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
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The dark matter By looking at how the emission lines in the spectrum were broadened by the Doppler effect, Nakajima and his colleagues measured that the gas is swirling around inside the galaxy at roughly 58 kilometers per second, a rather typical value for dwarf galaxies.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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Media reports are swirling that L’Oréal is in discussions to acquire a majority stake in Innovist, an Indian personal care company that includes brands such as Bare Anatomy, Chemist at Play and Sunscoop in its portfolio.—
Kathryn Hopkins,
Footwear News,
13 May 2026
Verb
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Outside, Kyle is still raging at Carl.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
13 May 2026
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Max Road Fire continues raging in Florida Everglades The Max Road Fire, which broke out over the weekend west of US-27 and Krome Avenue in western Broward County, has burned more than 11,000 acres and was 70% contained as of Tuesday afternoon.—
Manuel Bojorquez,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
Adjective
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The work could improve the design and modeling of molten salt reactors, which are one of the leading concepts for advanced nuclear energy systems.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
12 May 2026
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Neither rocky with a thick hydrogen atmosphere nor an ocean world, L 98-59 d might occupy a new class of molten, sulfurous exoplanet, according to a study in Nature Astronomy.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
11 May 2026
Verb
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And, in the aftermath of a stomach-churning stick-up that twisted my guts with the queasy horror of a repressed memory, Gary is given a week to make the problem go away.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
16 May 2026
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Around a spinning black hole, rotational energy would be transferred to light scalar dark matter, amplifying its density, almost like a paddle churning cream into butter.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 May 2026
Verb
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The Lux was a 6-in-1 multicooker that could do everything from pressure cooking to steaming food.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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After steaming your oven, remove the racks and clean them separately in the kitchen sink.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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The secret to achieving that signature sizzling-fajita flavor at home is cooking everything over high heat.—
Jesse Szewczyk,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 May 2026
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The show, which featured a sizzling performance by Walton Goggins, as an authoritarian vigilante, was an avant-garde breakthrough for television.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
Verb
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Firefighters witnessed a rare ‘ash devil’ while battling the Trinity fire in San Bernardino County — a whirling column of hot ash and embers created when rising heat meets shifting winds.—
Blanca Begert,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2026
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The video then cuts to two Apache helicopters whirling up.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
2 May 2026
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“Seething.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seething. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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