fulminate
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Mr. Lanthimos isn’t the type to thunder and fulminate and declare his themes, and the film doesn’t really align with any particular political outlook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
It was at the point that its dance critic, Arlene Croce, who was then among Bob’s most valued friends, began to fulminate in print against what she saw as Martins’s inadequacies as Balanchine’s successor.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
They fulminate in caustic tirades at the condemned, whose sentence is never in doubt and whose guilt is never in question.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2021
“Amy would fulminate and care deeply about issues,” said one former mayoral aide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2021
So Easton snapped a fulminate in Davidge when his Prussian tongue betrayed him into that impertinent, intolerable alien “Vell?”
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
Mr. Vance fulminates: “Never have I read a purer distillation of our worship at the altar of commerce.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
“They are coming, they are coming, they are coming!” he fulminates in a clip the parents’ legal team plays for him during his 2019 deposition, at which he seems unmoved.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
“But even if money spent now saves money later, so what?” he fulminates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
He fulminates fire, of course, if he has remembered to change his flint, and, all in all, it’s just as well that he is invisible most of the time.
From Time ● Aug. 11, 2016
He fulminates against the "grammarians" and begins to think that perhaps, after all, a career of erudite scholarship is not the ideal existence.
From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick
Ferguson stared deep into the night while, behind him, his coaching staff of Neil McCann, Allan McGregor and Billy Dodds fulminated.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
He fulminated about it in his floor speeches, often delivered on Friday afternoons when most of his colleagues had long since flown home for the weekend.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2020
Even as the House voted and Trump fulminated, small-town life here went on: Folks finished up work chores, dashed to the post office to send Christmas cards and donned gaudy holiday sweaters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
Kim Jong-il was exasperated by his compatriots’ lack of drive and creativity, and bizarrely fulminated against excessive ideology and dogma in North Korean films, secret recordings aired in a new documentary reveal.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2016
The voice of God has not yet, through that of his Vicar, fulminated the terrible sentence.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
It is an unusually nuanced take on a subject that too often generates reflexive fulminating or fawning, and a truly auspicious start to the New Museum’s new chapter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
This push and pull among exiles plays out against a backdrop of a potential revolution fulminating in their home country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
First Lady Edith Wilson practically ran the White House, leaving opponents fulminating about "government by petticoat".
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2019
His glimmering dark fantasy world began fulminating in Mexico, where he was born, and continued in San Diego, where his family moved when he was 9.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2018
To make the mercurial fulminating powder.—Dissolve half an ounce of mercury in three ounces of nitric acid, assisting the solution by a gentle heat.
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