rage
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The video itself has been roundly seen as damaging to Miller, who comes across as bullying and condescending, and whose rage at the situation seems to be boiling just below the surface.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
"Meanwhile, amid the hot, dry and windy weather in the EU, blazes continued to rage in France".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Elsewhere in Europe, thousands of people were evacuated late on Wednesday as fires threatened a tourist resort on the Greek island of Crete and continued to rage on Thursday, fanned by violent winds, authorities said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
There’s a righteous feminist rage underneath the scene as well, a modernization that brings “The Odyssey” fiercely and disturbingly up to date.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
His face is tight with barely controlled rage.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Every Emmy season, a battle rages over which network or streamer earns the most nominations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
A copy of the Daily Mail dated 12 June 1944 - days after D-Day - reports that "battle rages around empty Caen" and "trap closing on Nazis".
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
Wherever moms of girls get together — from school pickups to churches and Facebook groups — the debate rages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
“Each day the war rages, we see a reckoning slowly approaching.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026
The Battle of Manila rages on for days, then weeks, as American and Philippine forces push the Japanese soldiers toward surrender.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Papin and the children were now stuck in Biscarrosse, just as one of the worst fires in recent French history raged near them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
They are the principal concern for the thousands of crews and volunteers combating the wildfires that have raged here for a week, forcing tens of thousands of residents and tourists to flee.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Over the past six days, the largest French wildfire since 1949 has raged west of Bordeaux, forcing more than 220,000 people to flee and destroying 240 houses.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Wildfires have raged across Europe over the past week, primarily France and Spain, where more than 330,000 people have been evacuated.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
It was hard to imagine that war raged somewhere in Europe.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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The prolonged hot and dry conditions have created favourable conditions for wildfires, with massive wildfires raging across western Europe last month and "exceptional activity" in terms of the area burned and smoke and emissions generated.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
“Raging against the second half of your life, raging against how the world’s perceiving you, and how the world looks at you at a certain age.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
But there are at least 14 other fires raging throughout the state.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
As the flight took off, the captain said that if passengers looked out of their windows they could see the raging fires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
My eyes bugged, the better to transmit my raging mind stream.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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