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fulminate

[fuhl-muh-nayt] / ˈfʌl məˌneɪt /


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Mr. Lanthimos isn’t the type to thunder and fulminate and declare his themes, and the film doesn’t really align with any particular political outlook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

It was at the point that its dance critic, Arlene Croce, who was then among Bob’s most valued friends, began to fulminate in print against what she saw as Martins’s inadequacies as Balanchine’s successor.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

He can fulminate for all eight days into the giant void that once held your interest in what he has to say.

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023

“Amy would fulminate and care deeply about issues,” said one former mayoral aide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2021

All along the road these blessed visions crowd, fulminate and form as it were torches, and these lights mark the road for the traveller.

From Fairfax and His Pride by Marie Van Vorst

Mr. Vance fulminates: “Never have I read a purer distillation of our worship at the altar of commerce.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

“They are coming, they are coming, they are coming!” he fulminates in a clip the parents’ legal team plays for him during his 2019 deposition, at which he seems unmoved.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024

“But even if money spent now saves money later, so what?” he fulminates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2021

He records Bonhoeffer’s powerful experiences, for example, at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, where the preacher Adam Clayton Powell fulminates: “Obeying God means challenging injustice! You don’t just think about God. … You act!”

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2018

He fulminates against the "grammarians" and begins to think that perhaps, after all, a career of erudite scholarship is not the ideal existence.

From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick

“It takes people who are wealthy in New York to maintain the museums, maintain the hospitals,” John Catsimatidis, a billionaire real estate and supermarket tycoon, fulminated on Fox News.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025

Ferguson stared deep into the night while, behind him, his coaching staff of Neil McCann, Allan McGregor and Billy Dodds fulminated.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025

They fulminated against the notion that affidavits could be submitted after the close of an extradition hearing; it was repugnant to “universally accepted principles of law” for Root even to consider this new evidence.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022

He fulminated about it in his floor speeches, often delivered on Friday afternoons when most of his colleagues had long since flown home for the weekend.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2020

These misdeeds, although denied by the Signoria, were alleged as a justification of the terrible bull of March 31, 1376, fulminated against Florence by Gregory.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea

It is an unusually nuanced take on a subject that too often generates reflexive fulminating or fawning, and a truly auspicious start to the New Museum’s new chapter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

This push and pull among exiles plays out against a backdrop of a potential revolution fulminating in their home country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

“And she’ll distance herself from her father because he’s going to stay his crazy, fulminating self on Twitter.”

From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2020

First Lady Edith Wilson practically ran the White House, leaving opponents fulminating about "government by petticoat".

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2019

The Spider is formed after the manner of the common spider, it has a glass body, into which is put one third of a grain of fulminating silver.

From The whole Secret laid Open The complete art of making the chemical fulminating objects by Anonymous




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