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[seeth] / sið /


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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

I have never known anyone who would even venture to stick his toe in its polluted brown waters, which seethe with sewage, industrial waste, and deadly insecticides.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Sal quietly seethes with irritation at Sonny’s misbegotten machinations, his chilly demeanor suggesting a tense and potentially dangerous volatility.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

His father Carlos seethes at their current ordeal.

From Barron's Feb. 1, 2026

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

Amaya just seethes with contempt at the situation.

From Salon Jun. 11, 2023

As G’ma seethes, Scoob stares at her little hands on the steering wheel, then down at his own.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

He seethed with resentment at their mainstream success and regularly took jabs at his former bandmates in the press.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2026

Some Google employees who had spent years working on the technology seethed at being lapped.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 7, 2026

"Flowers in your hair? Do me a favour," he seethed in his 2010 autobiography.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2025

“You lied about your son, you lied about your daughter, huh, you lied about them other kids that’s out there hoping that you come,” Lamar seethed.

From Salon May 7, 2024

“That isn’t true,” Seven seethed under her breath.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

The guitarist didn’t skip a beat: “That suits me, I’m a miserable sod most of the time.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 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

Further down the street, another tree had been uprooted so forcefully that it also pulled up a big corner of sod from a lawn.

From Slate Oct. 21, 2024

When teachers brought us to the sod house in Oklahoma and told us it was ninety-eight years old, I asked why they’d made a museum out of it.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Then, as the pace slowed in the men's 10,000m, three sodden runners came together.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

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

When it flooded most recently, she was left to stay overnight in the sodden flat, as no alternative accommodation could be found.

From BBC Dec. 12, 2025

Heavy rain forced play to be suspended early in the final round with large areas of standing water on the sodden course.

From Barron's Nov. 9, 2025

He took out all the wet things, the blankets and pillows and Lyra’s sodden clothes, and laid them flat on the planks of the landing.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

It is difficult, though, to recall him being as seething as he was on Tuesday night.

From BBC Aug. 26, 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

At 4:10 p.m., still seething over Ulbrickson’s reversal, they brought their boat up to the starting line at the foot of Webster Street, just south of Jack London Square and three miles from the finish.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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