frenzy
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Toward the end of the show, Jay-Z mentioned it was a "young lady's birthday", sending the crowd into a frenzy, but he joked that he couldn't make her perform on her big day.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
This week: Nvidia joined Silicon Valley’s A.I. investment frenzy and bought Hugging Face for $12.93 billion.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
These jobs figures followed a federal debt frenzy in July, when the federal deficit nearly quadrupled from the previous month, to $432 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
By then, players might be in spring training — or might still be sitting home, awaiting the end of a lockout and a subsequent free-agent signing frenzy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Even as the four of them stepped into the high green and gold grasses, a small orange kitten was worrying a big old hen into a frenzy near a rotting stump.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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Scientists describe the result as seasonal Arctic "feeding frenzies" - part of a major regime shift in the ocean environment along East Greenland.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
At Creator Fest, Abarca commanded the stage, building up the energy of the crowd until hair whipped in frenzies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
The recent rally in silver is notable, with the white metal exhibiting significant volatility as it has attracted a wave of retail investors in a repeat of previous frenzies over the metal.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
Defenses that have been built to stop the resurgent run game sometimes look ill-prepared for pass-happy frenzies in crunchtime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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He’s worried that the frenzied online discourse will only make the problem worse.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026
Leveraged ETFs and their siblings, inverse funds, are risky, and their frenzied proliferation that kicked into overdrive 2025 may be overshadowing their big jump in closures this year.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The frenzied scenes around this clammy building eventually abated, only for Faye Rogers to spark more bedlam with a rampant gold in the 200m individual medley SM10.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The most epic call of all time is a blistering, frenzied 68-second diatribe delivered in two different languages that namechecks three British prime ministers, a heavyweight champion, and, oddly, Princess Diana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
If we could enter a cell, many of the molecular specks we would see would be protein molecules, some in frenzied activity, others merely waiting.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Loya: —and then they’re just frenzying around their house.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2019
He watched their splashing, their excitement, and their frenzying limbs with the awareness that this tousling around had no higher significance.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
Still we must doubt the competency of the alleged authors of the excitement to perform the bewildering and frenzying acts ascribed to them.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
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