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fulminate

[fuhl-muh-neyt] / ˈfʌl məˌneɪt /


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Mr. Lanthimos isn’t the type to thunder and fulminate and declare his themes, and the film doesn’t really align with any particular political outlook.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

It was at the point that its dance critic, Arlene Croce, who was then among Bob’s most valued friends, began to fulminate in print against what she saw as Martins’s inadequacies as Balanchine’s successor.

From New York Times Jun. 23, 2023

He can fulminate for all eight days into the giant void that once held your interest in what he has to say.

From Washington Post May 2, 2023

They fulminate in caustic tirades at the condemned, whose sentence is never in doubt and whose guilt is never in question.

From Salon Oct. 13, 2021

The sudden strain had ignited tubes of fulminate of mercury, which in turn had exploded heavy charges of gun-cotton.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Mr. Vance fulminates: “Never have I read a purer distillation of our worship at the altar of commerce.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

“They are coming, they are coming, they are coming!” he fulminates in a clip the parents’ legal team plays for him during his 2019 deposition, at which he seems unmoved.

From Salon Mar. 26, 2024

“But even if money spent now saves money later, so what?” he fulminates.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2021

He fulminates fire, of course, if he has remembered to change his flint, and, all in all, it’s just as well that he is invisible most of the time.

From Time Aug. 11, 2016

The terrorist organization will tend to emulate the very characteristics of its enemy it fulminates against the most.

From Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin

Ferguson stared deep into the night while, behind him, his coaching staff of Neil McCann, Allan McGregor and Billy Dodds fulminated.

From BBC Feb. 26, 2025

For two years, the state quietly investigated the matter while Villanueva fulminated about it at seemingly every opportunity.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2024

His stance was praised by other veterans on the forum, where many angrily fulminated against a “betrayal” by MPs.

From The Guardian Apr. 25, 2019

While other preachers fulminated about damnation, Rev. Schuller offered his congregation a theology that he described as “possibility thinking.”

From Washington Post Apr. 2, 2015

The representatives of the female sex, like one body, fulminated such a terrible look at him that we cannot possibly explain why it did not reduce him to ashes.

From Maximina by Armando Palacio Valdés

It is an unusually nuanced take on a subject that too often generates reflexive fulminating or fawning, and a truly auspicious start to the New Museum’s new chapter.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

His torrent of letters to the editor of the Los Angeles Star fulminating against anyone who didn’t believe in all things Moneyan got so tiresome that the paper finally stopped publishing anything he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2022

Marsan and Kinnear are the two poles of the production, with Kinnear bringing his trademarked thoughtful chill to the fascist frontman and Marsan fulminating entertainingly as the head of the resistance.

From New York Times Apr. 29, 2022

With a well-developed culture already in the bottle, they "would have been attacked by a tetanus of the fulminating variety".

From BBC Dec. 10, 2020

Procure some glass globes, between the size of a pea and a small marble, in which there must be a small hole; put into it half a grain of fulminating silver.

From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown




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