- present participle of rave.
raving
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"You don't have to look like everybody else. You don't have to be a raving beauty to be special and to be beautiful."
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
And since raving about his PortaSplit on X, he has also been co-opted into the community - he says he has been receiving curious messages about the air-conditioner every day.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Coverage in the Post included stories of people raving that it was all “very cool” and “magical.”
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Influencers, celebrities and everyday people are raving about the injectable substances, which promise everything from youthful skin to speedy muscle recovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
“Have you both gone raving mad? D’you mean to tell me you’re frightened of that fool Ragear?”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Lawrence while Aunt Ada Doom injects a Gothic touch with her half-mad stare and ravings about “something nasty in the woodshed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Opponents of fluoridation have played on paranoid fears for decades, but into the 1960s, these were popularly dismissed as ravings from fringe organizations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
These do not appear to be the ravings of a lunatic.
From Salon ● May 4, 2024
All that can be dismissed as the ravings of the lunatic fringe, but it is being taken seriously in Jordan and Egypt.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
The estimates provide a good example of how numerical horse sense can check pseudoscientific ravings.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
