- present participle of rave.
raving
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Coverage in the Post included stories of people raving that it was all “very cool” and “magical.”
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
You’ve got CEOs backing you, and fans raving, and you’ve managed to milk social media attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
One in which the mayor is still raving about injustice—but nobody is left in New York to hear him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
He practises that technique a lot, if it goes in everyone's raving about him.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
Log-a-Log continued where his comrade had left off: “You’re going to ask the Cap’n where you can find Giant Poisonteeth, mouse? Er, I mean, Matthias. You are either very brave or raving mad.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Behind the scenes, away from all of the media rantings and ravings, and the cheap thrill it gives to revive the passé term canoodling, it is surely traumatic and sad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
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
