seethe
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As Mira and Edgar tentatively approach discussion of the breach in the family, it’s primarily Beckett who begins to seethe with anger at what happened—and what didn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
U.S. consumers over the border will seethe with envy.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
People are right to seethe over the stranglehold film and TV franchises have on the industry.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
Fans were overjoyed to seethe five Spice Girls back together for the first time in years, with many commenting on Beckham's post.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2024
If you only knew, Kitty, how I seethe when they scold and mock me.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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His father Carlos seethes at their current ordeal.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
Flirting between gears near its 8,600-rpm redline, the Z06 roars and seethes like a blast furnace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
A difficult co-worker, she’s not only in everybody’s private business but she seethes with resentment when her customers defect to her colleagues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
One, 3800-meter-high Mount Erebus, seethes menacingly just 40 kilometers from McMurdo Station, Antarctica’s biggest research base.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024
“Didn’t you hear what Zik said the other day? Eastern Nigeria seethes, seethes, and will continue to seethe until the federal government addresses the massacres,” Professor Ezeka said, his hoarse voice quickly fading.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Kim regime seethed when, on four different occasions between September and January, drones intruded into North Korea’s airspace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
"It's a Manchester derby," seethed former United captain Gary Neville on Sky Sports after the dull goalless draw at Old Trafford.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025
That many readers seethed at my assertion that the lack of attention paid to the anniversary was unsurprising to me since Anaheim is a place that loves to “celebrate the positive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
Esther Rolle, who died in 1998, seethed at the show’s increased emphasis on J.J. as "Good Times" found more mainstream success.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023
He seethed with self-recrimination as he hastened back as rapidly as he could stride along the splintered, irregularly-spaced railroad ties.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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In “Grass Breathing,” Mendieta, hidden beneath squares of sod, uses her own respiration to animate the earth above.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
For this enormous game, new grass was specially sourced from a nearby sod farm.
From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026
Mr Williams said: "I'm just a stubborn old sod and I'm not going to give in. I would appreciate it if anybody said to me 'you were right and we were wrong'."
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2025
USC’s new baseball stadium isn’t slated to open to the public until early 2026, but the Trojans began practicing here on the field in February, as soon as the sod had set.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025
The houses were roofed with sod, the windows shuttered with ragged pieces of hide.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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And if you aren’t moved by it, there is something wrong and you must investigate your sodden heart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
The ball travelled unpredictably across the sodden surface.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
Scotland's campaign got off to a disappointing start in losing to Italy in sodden conditions in Rome.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
That was the span between his unlikely emergence as co-leader of a sodden US Open and JJ Spaun holing an astonishing 64-foot putt to deny the Scot any hope of a play-off.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
Will picked them up, and then he noticed his father’s feather-trimmed cloak trailing behind his body on the ground, heavy and sodden but warm.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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Just below the surface, however, the soccer world was seething with discontent.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Meanwhile, Salieri’s invisible seething paralyzes him, turning into the punishment he believes God inflicted on him.
From Salon ● May 16, 2026
The war in Iran is a seething stalemate, the price of oil is up about 60% this year, inflation jumped to 3.3% in March—and still U.S. stocks set all-time highs this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
It’s a truly stunning expression of his rage and betrayal — a seething accusation — told entirely through bodies and gesture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
I must have, because there before my sleeping self rose an enormous sunlit Stilton cheese, seething with snakes.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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