febrile

Example Sentences

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Thursday's remarkable risk-on rally reflects exactly that and barring any unforeseen events - a dangerous assumption in such febrile times, perhaps - Asia should round off a tumultuous week on a high note on Friday.

From Reuters

The biggest cheers from the febrile crowd were reserved for robust challenges until Kyogo almost found a way through on 20 minutes.

From BBC

Despite Wepner's protests and to the dismay of the febrile, 15,000-strong crowd inside Ohio's Richfield Coliseum, the referee stopped the fight just 19 seconds shy of the end of round 15.

From BBC

"It is absolutely febrile," he said, adding that going to big away games can feel like "running the gauntlet".

From BBC

It arguably reached its artistic apogee in early-20th-century Vienna, where it was seen as uniquely suited to capture the flux and fluidity of life in Europe’s febrile modern cities.

From Washington Post