feverish

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The week started with feverish excitement as thousands of Irish fans - most of whom didn't have a ticket to the game - descended on Prague.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Her take is a maelstrom of splendid beauty and doomed love, colliding at a feverish pace that makes the fidelity to Brontë’s book moot.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

The run-up has seen none of the feverish public rallies that Suu Kyi could command, with just a smattering of low-key events.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

Mendonça Filho, who previously co-directed the feverish sorta-Western “Bacurau,” which doubled as a critique of inequality and colonialism, tells us all we need to know about the time period we’re about to enter.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Shut up in the bathroom, she would release herself from the torment of a hopeless passion by writing feverish letters, which she finally hid in the bottom of her trunk.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez