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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

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

By the combustion of the priming the fulminate mixture in the cap is detonated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various




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