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fulminate

[fuhl-muh-nayt] / 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

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

Hill says that watching Trump fulminate made her feel like Alice in Wonderland watching the Queen of Hearts, with her constant shouts of “Off with their heads!”

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

If you could hit upon some position from which he could fulminate his bolts of sarcasm with effect, I fancy he 'd not object to resign the Bench.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Charles James Lever

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

The supply of subordinate fulminates, though several times greater than what was required, proved to be considerably short.

From The Crack of Doom by Robert Cromie

“It takes people who are wealthy in New York to maintain the museums, maintain the hospitals,” John Catsimatidis, a billionaire real estate and supermarket tycoon, fulminated on Fox News.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025

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

They fulminated against the notion that affidavits could be submitted after the close of an extradition hearing; it was repugnant to “universally accepted principles of law” for Root even to consider this new evidence.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022

A writer in Gendai Business, a weekly magazine, fulminated against Princess Mako’s choice, saying she would “expose Japan to shame internationally.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

From pulpit and press our poet was fulminated at.

From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

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

Much of the time is spent ruminating, fulminating and kvetching, kind of like life, which makes it a radical departure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

Marsan and Kinnear are the two poles of the production, with Kinnear bringing his trademarked thoughtful chill to the fascist frontman and Marsan fulminating entertainingly as the head of the resistance.

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

With a well-developed culture already in the bottle, they "would have been attacked by a tetanus of the fulminating variety".

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2020

Procure some glass globes, between the size of a pea and a small marble, in which there must be a small hole; put into it half a grain of fulminating silver.

From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown


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