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
Chris Cannon, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
The play examines what happens when seething anger is turned inward, as well as the desire for reconciliation.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
The work begins with soft, airy slipping, the sense of something quietly seething and forming.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
Terrorism is a generational and self-sustaining beast, fed by the doctrine of managing crises instead of solving them, letting seething resentments fester with no eye toward protecting the generation to come.
—Chris Cannon, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
The play examines what happens when seething anger is turned inward, as well as the desire for reconciliation.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
Verb
The usually calm German was clearly seething in a short interview with DAZN Espana following the full-time whistle on Saturday night.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
The work begins with soft, airy slipping, the sense of something quietly seething and forming.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seething
Adjective
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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
Verb
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Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water.—
Travis Loller,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.—
Interesting Engineering,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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This complex is highly mobile in the molten sections of the mantle.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten rock, giant rocks formed as the magma cooled and solidified.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
23 May 2025
Verb
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Bateman is in the midst of churning a career-high output of 654 total yards and seven touchdowns in 14 games so far.—
Gord Magill,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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Instead, its vivid, expressive prose also explores how aesthetic beauty can cover stomach-churning abuse, while Lin’s rich literary allusions reveal her sensitivity to language and her critical interest in developing a Taiwanese cultural heritage.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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While her peers blew in white-hot, cooled to red-hot, then fizzled, flatlined, and peeled off into God knows where, Nicole Kidman just kept accelerating forward.—
Danielle Pergament,
Allure,
22 May 2025
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My white-hot reaction was set off by that one word.—
Dawn Staley,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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The biggest thing that gives Golden a chance to shine is his blazing speed.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The physical evidence strongly suggested that rather than hiking across a blazing desert after enduring weeks of torment, Aimee had gotten out of a car and walked a short distance to be discovered.—
Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The company built a retail and residential complex around the county’s Coconut Grove Metrorail station, and Martin also is pitching an incinerator site in western Miami-Dade as an alternative to the Levine Cava plan to rebuild the trash-burning facility in Doral.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
4 Jan. 2025
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That same year, the Legislature appropriated $180 million that the Air Resources Board could use to fund alternatives to burning.—
Rebecca Plevin,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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For an extra hydration kick on sweltering days, blended cucumber makes a refreshing addition, packing in more electrolytes for maximum summer relief.—
Hasina Jeelani,
Vogue,
12 May 2025
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In Phnom Penh’s hot season, when the Cambodian capital’s sweltering, subtropical air routinely soars to 100 degrees, more workers than usual visited the infirmaries inside a factory that made baby clothes for Nike, the world’s largest athletic apparel brand.—
Rob Davis,
ProPublica,
4 Oct. 2024
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“Seething.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seething. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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