- present participle of rave.
raving
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My mom, meanwhile, can’t stop raving about the VIP airport experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
"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
Least of all the relentless drive that would one day have everyone at USC raving and others around the nation whispering about one of the most anticipated freshman in college football.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Coverage in the Post included stories of people raving that it was all “very cool” and “magical.”
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
It is what turned her for a little time into a raving woman, though that time was still in the future.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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
Online ravings about “tiger blood” and “winning!” earned him a Live Nation tour with a cry for help as its title: “My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not An Option.”
From Salon ● Sep. 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
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
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