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febrile

adjective as in feverish

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The big storyInside the race to build the best quantum computer on EarthGoogle’s most advanced computer isn’t at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, nor anywhere in the febrile sprawl of Silicon Valley.

In the book’s 21st-century Los Angeles, the world is messy, replete with social inequities, sexism, racism, gated communities, surveillance, hypercapitalism, febrile megacorporations, and corrupt policing.

The result was “Spiral,” 52 minutes in the interzone, a cosmic axis where all points intersect, beholden to neither contemporary trends nor febrile nostalgia.

In the febrile atmosphere of Greece waiting for the onslaught everyone knows is coming, secret agents are proliferating.

But Beardsley was watching Pederson now, whose face took on a sudden febrile gleam.

If an acute febrile condition develops, the wound is mortal.

Febrile and inflammatory diseases were all treated by the withdrawal of nourishment, carried to the extreme.

Everyone was febrile and overwrought except Anne-Marie herself, who seemed to trouble not at all about it.

Fewer colds; febrile attacks very slight; great elasticity in recovering from disease.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to febrile, such as: delirious, fevered, fiery, flushed, hallucinatory, and hot.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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