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feverish

[fee-ver-ish] / ˈfi vər ɪʃ /




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The team, chasing their first basketball championship since 1973, have whipped up a feverish following in the largest US city.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Nearly five years on from its premiere, every morsel of information about Mike White’s addictive HBO series is still met with feverish excitement.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

But he didn’t have the expressive variety to make the horror of Hercules’ death scene match lines like “Along my feverish veins, like liquid fire, the subtle poison hastes.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Her take is a maelstrom of splendid beauty and doomed love, colliding at a feverish pace that makes the fidelity to Brontë’s book moot.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

Tearful, feverish, and scratching, she had to explain to her teacher why “Damp and Spooky: The Depiction of Grottos in Ominous Landscapes” would not be handed in on time.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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