- present participle of rave.
raving
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"You don't have to look like everybody else. You don't have to be a raving beauty to be special and to be beautiful."
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
This, the author argues, has led to a loss of the innovation in music, fashion and art that raving with raucous strangers on sticky dance floors sometimes sparks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
And since raving about his PortaSplit on X, he has also been co-opted into the community - he says he has been receiving curious messages about the air-conditioner every day.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Coverage in the Post included stories of people raving that it was all “very cool” and “magical.”
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
I can’t half sleep for him raving bout clubs and clothes and forty- nine brands of beer.
From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
Lawrence while Aunt Ada Doom injects a Gothic touch with her half-mad stare and ravings about “something nasty in the woodshed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Opponents of fluoridation have played on paranoid fears for decades, but into the 1960s, these were popularly dismissed as ravings from fringe organizations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
All that can be dismissed as the ravings of the lunatic fringe, but it is being taken seriously in Jordan and Egypt.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
The Cold War with the Soviet Union provided the ostensible context for McCarthy's ravings about "a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous venture in the history of man."
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2023
So above the ravings and protests of the distraught Prince of Demons, the king’s men removed the bonds from the king and wrapped them twice round the imposter.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
