Definitions

fever pitch

NOUN

highly agitated state

Synonyms

WEAK

all haste excitement fast forward great haste mad rush rush

Example Sentences

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Nervousness around AI seems to have reached fever pitch.

From Barron's

Getting themselves to fever pitch when there's cordite in the air is one thing.

From BBC

On Wednesday, some fans received a brief voice note, apparently from Styles, singing the words "we belong together" a capella, raising excitement to a fever pitch.

From BBC

Those calls reached a fever pitch late last year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Interest in quantum computing, which has the potential to be the next disruptive technology, reached a fever pitch last year, punctuated by headlines about developments in error correction and scaling.

From Barron's