boiled

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“These verdicts mark an unsurprising breaking point. Negative sentiment toward social media has been building for years, and now it’s finally boiled over,” said Mike Proulx, a director at Forrester, a market research company.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026

Ads introducing the product implied that consumers would have to eat boiled cod to find a comparable protein-to-calorie ratio, and the company reinforced the point by eventually beginning to sell frozen cod filets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

The same anger over lost oil wealth and a monarch in the pocket of foreign interests boiled over again in the 1970s, this time driven by religious furor from the charismatic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Missing the entire 2000-01 season, his audition effectively boiled down to four games with Inter at the end of the next, scoring four times.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

Claire and her brother got close to the tree I was sitting in, still giggling and talking, and right then I boiled over, and I couldn’t have held it back if I’d wanted to.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan