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fulminate

[fuhl-muh-neyt] / ˈfʌl məˌneɪt /


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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

Despite this, Burger showed mercy to Hammond and gracefully accepted his apology, though he continued to fulminate about Beckwith and the Time story.

From Washington Post May 2, 2022

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

On the nipple was placed the copper cap containing the detonating composition, now made of three parts of chlorate of potash, two of fulminate of mercury and one of powdered glass.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

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

William O'Brien, almost hoarse with rage, fulminates against Prince Arthur and all his works.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890 by Various

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

Its first publisher, Harrison Gray Otis, fulminated against the typesetters’ union trying to organize Times workers.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2023

His stance was praised by other veterans on the forum, where many angrily fulminated against a “betrayal” by MPs.

From The Guardian Apr. 25, 2019

While other preachers fulminated about damnation, Rev. Schuller offered his congregation a theology that he described as “possibility thinking.”

From Washington Post Apr. 2, 2015

In an unctuous and impassioned manner he fulminated against all sorts and conditions of transgressors.

From Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

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

His torrent of letters to the editor of the Los Angeles Star fulminating against anyone who didn’t believe in all things Moneyan got so tiresome that the paper finally stopped publishing anything he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2022

“And she’ll distance herself from her father because he’s going to stay his crazy, fulminating self on Twitter.”

From The Guardian Nov. 24, 2020

First Lady Edith Wilson practically ran the White House, leaving opponents fulminating about "government by petticoat".

From BBC Apr. 15, 2019

Laughter mingled with their jeers at the absurd figure he presented, 151 fulminating and flying at the same time.

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison




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