feverish
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Eight months later, and as Scotland prepare to face Haiti in the early hours of Sunday, feverish anticipation appears to be taking hold.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
The team, chasing their first basketball championship since 1973, have whipped up a feverish following in the largest US city.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Nearly five years on from its premiere, every morsel of information about Mike White’s addictive HBO series is still met with feverish excitement.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
But he didn’t have the expressive variety to make the horror of Hercules’ death scene match lines like “Along my feverish veins, like liquid fire, the subtle poison hastes.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Concerned for Ultima’s safety and feverish with the cold, I struggled to keep up with him because in the thick snow a person quickly disappeared from sight.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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